Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Job 11:10
cut off:
Or, make a change
who can hinder him? Heb.who can turn him away?
cut off:
Or, make a change
who can hinder him? Heb.who can turn him away?
Verse Job 11:10. _IF HE CUT OFF_] As he is unlimited and almighty, he cannot be _controlled_. He will do whatsoever he pleases; and he is pleased with nothing but what is _right_. Who then will dare...
IF HE CUT OFF - Margin, “Make a change.” But neither of these phrases properly expresses the sense of the original. The whole image here is probably that of arresting a criminal and bringing him to tr...
CHAPTER 11 ZOPHAR'S FIRST ADDRESS _ 1. Job's multitude of words rebuked (Job 11:1)_ 2. The greatness and omniscience of God (Job 11:7) 3. That Job repent and receive the Blessings (Job 11:13)...
SPEECH OF ZOPHAR.Job has shown that the assumption, that on account of the Divine righteousness only human sin can be the cause of misfortune, leads to the worst conclusions as to God's nature. What a...
CUT OFF. pass by. WHO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
Panegyric on the Divine Wisdom or Omniscience. This wisdom cannot be fathomed by man (Job 11:7). It fills all things (Job 11:8). And this explains the sudden calamities that befall men, for God percei...
This omniscience in its operation among sinful men. _If he cut off_ IF HE PASS BY. Zophar uses Job's own word and illustration, ch. Job 9:11 (passeth on). _and shut up_ i. e. arrest, and put in ward...
DISCOURSE: 462 THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD Job 11:7. Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than...
IF HE CUT OFF, AND SHUT UP— _If, by a change of things, he shall confine this man to his house, or grant that man to appear in public, who shall hinder him?_ I have expressed the matter rather paraphr...
2. The Almighty is not fooled; He recognizes iniquity. (Job 11:7-12) TEXT 11:7-12 7 CANST THOU BY SEARCHING FIND OAT GOD? Canst thou find OUT THE Almighty unto perfection? 8 IT IS high as heaven;...
_IF HE CUT OFF, AND SHUT UP, OR GATHER TOGETHER, THEN WHO CAN HINDER HIM?_ If he cut off, х_ YACHªLOP_ (H2498)] - rather, as in Job 9:11, pass as a storm-namely, rush upon in anger. He turns Job's ow...
THE FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence....
IF HE CUT OFF, etc.] rather, 'Should he pass by, imprison, arraign before an assembly?' If God, with perfect knowledge of sinful man, visits him in various ways, who shall gainsay His actions?...
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 11 ZOPHAR’S FIRST SPEECH G...
Zophar’s words in verses 7-9 are like God’s words in Job 38:4-5 and Job 38:19. God said these things to teach Job about God’s greatness. But Zophar wanted to frighten Job. Zophar was saying, ‘God is v...
IF HE CUT OFF. — It is the same word as “a spirit passed before me” (Job 4:15); and as Job himself used (Job 9:11): “he passeth on, but I perceive him not.” “If, then,” says Zophar, “God acteth thus,...
אִם ־יַחֲלֹ֥ף וְ יַסְגִּ֑יר וְ֝ יַקְהִ֗יל וּ
XI. A FRESH ATTEMPT TO CONVICT Job 11:1 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE third and presumably youngest of the three friends of Job now takes up the argument somewhat in the same strain as the others. With no wis...
“CANST THOU BY SEARCHING FIND OUT GOD?” Job 11:1 Zophar waxes vehement as he censures Job's self-justification and his refusal to acknowledge the guilt which his friends attribute to him. There is s...
When Job had ceased, Zophar, the last of the three friends, answered him. His method was characterized by even greater plainness than that of Bildad. Indeed, there was a roughness and directness about...
If he cut off, and (e) shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? (e) If God should turn the state of things and establish a new order in nature, who could control him?...
(7) В¶ Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? (8) It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? (9) The measure...
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...
IF HE CUT OFF,.... The horns, power, dominion, and authority of the wicked; or the spirits of princes, or kingdoms and states, whole nations, as he did the seven nations of Canaan; or families, as Job...
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? Ver. 10. _If he cut off, and shut up_] Heb. If he change, viz. his course or way of proceedings toward men, either to shut the...
_If he cut off_ Namely, a person or family; _and shut up_ In prison, or in the hands of an enemy, or in the net of affliction and trouble, Psalms 66:11. _Or gather together_ Make our condition strait...
If He cut off, passing over, or rushing upon, in anger, AND SHUT UP, OR GATHER TOGETHER, that is, if God arrests a man and calls him to judgment, holds a public trial, THEN WHO CAN HINDER HIM? Who can...
ZOPHAR TRIES TO REPROVE JOB...
ZOPHAR'S CRUEL ACCUSATION (vv.1-6) Zophar was likely the youngest of the three men, and what he lacks in maturity he makes up for in bitter accusation against Job. He did not have such restraint as...
He agrees with Job that no one can restrain God (Job 9:12). __...
7-12 Zophar speaks well concerning God and his greatness and glory, concerning man and his vanity and folly. See here what man is; and let him be humbled. God sees this concerning vain man, that he w...
IF HE CUT OFF, to wit, a person or a family. _Shut up in a prison_, or in the hands of an enemy. This _shutting up_ is opposed to the opening of the prison doors, and to that enlargement which God is...
Job 11:10 by H2498 (H8799) imprisons H5462 (H8686) gathers H6950 (H8686) hinder H7725 (H8686) If he cut o
The words we are about to read were spoken by one of Job's three friends, or what if I call them his three tormentors? These men did not speak wisely, and their argument was not altogether sound; but,...
CONTENTS: Zophar's theory of Job's condition. He thinks Job a hypocrite and liar. CHARACTERS: God, Zophar, Job. CONCLUSION: Those are not always in the right who are most forward to express their ju...
Job 11:3. _Thy lies;_ that is, thy device, as in the margin; _jactantias tuas,_ thy boastings, the delicacy of thy turns of speech, to extenuate thy sins: He does not mean gross lies and untruths, bec...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 11:1 Like Bildad (Job 8:1), Zophar accuses Job of being presumptuous and speaking empty words. ⇐
_FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR_ Zophar follows in the same train with his companions. Misled by the same false principle—great sufferings prove great sins—he acts the part, not of a comforter, but of a repr...
EXPOSITION JOB 11:1 Zophar, the Naamathite, the third of Job's comforters (Job 2:11), and probably the youngest of them, now at last takes the word, and delivers an angry and violent speech. He begin...
Shall we turn to the eleventh chapter of the book of Job. And in chapter 11 we hear from Job's third friend, old Zophar, and he gets his two cents worth in. Now for you that weren't here last Sunday n...
Daniel 4:35; Deuteronomy 32:30; Isaiah 41:27; Job 12:14; Job 34:29;...
Cut off — A person or family. Shut — Its a prison, or in the hands of an enemy. Gather — Whether it pleaseth God to scatter a family, or to gather them together from their dispersions. Hinder — Or, wh...