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Verse Job 11:17. _THINE AGE SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOONDAY_] The
_rest_ _of thy life_ shall be unclouded prosperity.
_THOU SHALT SHINE FORTH_] Thou shalt be in this unclouded state, as
the sun in...
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AND THINE AGE - Thy life. This does not mean old age, but the idea is,
that his life would be cheerful and happy.
CLEARER THAN THE NOON-DAY - Margin, “Arise above the noon-day.”
The margin is a liter...
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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)...
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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...
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AGE. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the
things done in it. See below. Hebrew. _heled,_ like Greek. _aion._
SHINE FORTH. soar or shoot upward like the rays of the rising s...
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Zophar turns to Job in exhortation and promise....
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_and thine age_ Or, as we should say, and _life_, Psalms 17:14; Psalms
39:5.
_thou shalt shine forth_ Rather, IF THERE BE DARKNESS, IT SHALL BE as
the morning. Even should temporary darkness occur it...
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THINE AGE SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOON-DAY— _Thy continuance in
this life shall be as the noon-day; thy darkness_ or _thy present
obscurity itself as the morning light._ Houbigant and Schultens....
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3. The penitent will prosper; for the wicked there is no hope. (Job
11:13-20)
TEXT 11:13-20
13 If thou set thy heart aright,
And stretch OAT THY HANDS TOWARD HIM;
14 If iniquity be in thy hand, pu...
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_AND THINE AGE SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOONDAY; THOU SHALT SHINE
FORTH, THOU SHALT BE AS THE MORNING._
Thine age (days, or life) shall be clearer than the noon-day -
namely, of thy former prosperit...
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11:17 life (e-2) 'lifetime,' as Psalms 39:5 ....
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THE FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR
The speech is short and unsympathetic.
1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence....
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_Thine_ AGE] RV '_thy_ life.' THOU SHALT SHINE] RV 'Though there be
darkness, it shall be as the morning.'...
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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...
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These are beautiful words. In heaven, our lives will be like this. But
in this world, sometimes good people must suffer, like Job. And
sometimes our friends, like Job’s friends, will give us the wrong...
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THINE AGE SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOONDAY. — Rather, _there shall
arise for thee a lifetime brighter than the_ _noonday; thou shalt soar
on high; thou shalt be like the morning,_ which is conceived...
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וּֽ֭ מִ צָּהֳרַיִם יָק֣וּם חָ֑לֶד
תָּ֝עֻ֗פָה...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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_Brightness. Septuagint, "But thy prayer, like the day-star and life,
shall arise to thee from the south, or as at noon-day." Hebrew, "Thy
age (Haydock) shall appear clearer than the noon-day, and dar...
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(13) В¶ If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands
toward him; (14) If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and
let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. (15) For then shalt th...
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_THE BRIGHT SIDE OF GROWING OLDER_
‘And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine
forth, thou shalt be as the morning.’
Job 11:17
Nobody ever does, naturally, like the idea of g...
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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...
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AND [THINE] AGE SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOONDAY,.... That is, the
remainder of his days; the latter part of his life, which was yet to
come, should be no more attended with the darkness of adversity...
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And [thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine
forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
Ver. 17. _And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday_] The rest
of thy life which thou gi...
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and thine age shall be clearer than the noonday, literally, "brighter
than noon shall be the duration or way of thy life," his entire future
life would be lifted out of the darkness of the present mis...
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ZOPHAR ADMONISHES JOB TO REPENT...
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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...
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SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOON DAY:
_ Heb._ shall arise above the noonday...
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13-20 Zophar exhorts Job to repentance, and gives him encouragement,
yet mixed with hard thoughts of him. He thought that worldly
prosperity was always the lot of the righteous, and that Job was to b...
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THINE AGE, i.e. the remainder of thy life and time in this world.
SHALL BE CLEARER, Heb. _shall arise_. Men are said to fall into
troubles, and to arise out of them. THAN THE NOON-DAY; or, _above the...
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Job 11:17 life H2465 brighter H6965 (H8799) noonday H6672 dark H5774
(H8799) morning H1242
age -...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_Thou shalt shine forth._
SHINING FOR JESUS
A beautiful parable showing how we can live for Christ, by shining for
Him, speaks from every lawn covered with hoar frost in winter, when
the sun shines o...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 11:1 Like Bildad (Job 8:1), Zophar accuses Job of
being presumptuous and speaking empty words.
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 29:10; Hosea 6:3; Isaiah 58:8; Job 42:11; Luke 2:26;...
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Shine — Light in scripture commonly signifies prosperity and glory.
Thy comfort, like the morning — light shall shine brighter and
brighter, until the perfect day....