Verse Job 13:22. _THEN CALL THOU_] Begin thou first to plead, and I will answer for myself; or, I will first state and defend my own case, and then answer _thou_ me....
THEN CALL THOU, AND I WILL ANSWER - Call me to trial; summon me to make my defense. This is language taken from courts of justice, and the idea is, that if God would remove his calamity, and not overa...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
Job 13:22 to Job 14:22. Job pleads his cause before God Having ordered his cause and challenged his friends to observe how he will plead, Job now enters, with the boldness and proud bearing of one as...
With these conditions he is ready to appear either as respondent or as appellant....
Assured of victory, he commands his friends to mark his pleading of his cause....
Job now turns from his friends, whom he commands to be silent, to his great plea with God, resuming the intention expressed in Job 13:3. The passage has two parts, one preliminary, Job 13:13, exhibiti...
THEN CALL THOU— The word _call_ is here a judicial term, and imports the declaring the accusation. This, in our law, is termed _arraigning_ the criminal. The whole verse is of the same kind. Heath....
6. He calls on God for an arraignment. (Job 13:20-28) TEXT 13:20-28 20 Only do NOT TWO THINGS UNTO ME: Then will I not hide myself from thy face: 21 WITHDRAW THY HAND far FROM ME; And let not thy...
_THEN CALL THOU, AND I WILL ANSWER: OR LET ME SPEAK, AND ANSWER THOU ME._ Call - a challenge to the defendant to answer to the charges. ANSWER - the defense begun. SPEAK - as plaintiff. ANSWER...
JOB'S THIRD SPEECH (CONTINUED) 1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He rejects their opinion as to the cause of his troubles, and regards it as an attempt to curry favour...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 13 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
Job was still suffering greatly. He asked God to take the pain away. Then Job would be ready to speak to God as his judge....
וּ֭ קְרָא וְ אָנֹכִ֣י אֶֽעֱנֶ֑ה אֹֽו ־אֲ֝דַבּ
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
“THOUGH HE SLAY ME” Job 13:1 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4. Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he was sufferin...
Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God (1-3). Before making this appeal there is an introductory pass...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
THEN CALL THOU, AND I WILL ANSWER,.... Either call him by name in open court, and he would answer to it; or arraign him at the bar, and exhibit charges against him, and he would make answer to them an...
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. Ver. 22. _Then call thou, and I will answer, &c._] Here Job gives God his choice, offering to be either defendant or plaintiff,...
Let me only beg, O great Judge of all, that thou wilt forbear to make use of _two things_ against _me. Then will I not hide myself from thee_ Then will I appear confidently to plead my cause before th...
Then call Thou, and I will answer; with these two factors removed, he would gladly obey the summons to stand trial; OR LET ME SPEAK, AND ANSWER THOU ME, for Job intended to maintain the justice of his...
Job's Comfort and Prayer...
JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS (vv.1-12) Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells Zophar that his eye has seen all this, his ear has heard it and understood...
If those conditions are agreeable then Job is ready to present his case. "He suggests that God can prosecute and he will defend, or the situation can be reversed" _(p. 44). _...
13-22 Job resolved to cleave to the testimony his own conscience gave of his uprightness. He depended upon God for justification and salvation, the two great things we hope for through Christ. Tempor...
Then choose thy own method. Either do thou charge me with hypocrisy, or more than common guilt, and I will defend myself; or I will argue with thee concerning thy extraordinary severity towards me; an...
Job 13:22 call H7121 (H8798) answer H6030 (H8799) speak H1696 (H8762) respond H7725 (H8685)...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to three friends continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: We should presevere in the way of duty, though it cost us all that is dear to us in this world, re...
Job 13:4. _Forgers of lies,_ misconstruing the ways of providence. Job 13:10 , _He will surely reprove you,_ though under a specious veil you accept of persons. Job 13:12. _Your remembrances are like...
_Then call Thou, and! will answer._ THE ECHO There are places where, if you speak with a loud voice, your words will come back to you after a short interval with the utmost distinctness. This repetit...
_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED_ I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not inferior to that of his friends (Job 13:1). “Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumstances to main...
EXPOSITION JOB 13:1, JOB 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1. are closely connected with Job 12:1; fo
Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood. Now what you know, the same I also know. I am not inferior to you. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I would desire to reason wit...
Job 38:3; Job 40:4; Job 40:5; Job 42:3; Job 9:32...