Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Job 11:17
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 sun.
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 sun.
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...
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...
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...
Zophar turns to Job in exhortation and promise....
_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...
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....
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...
_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...
11:17 life (e-2) 'lifetime,' as Psalms 39:5 ....
_Thine_ AGE] RV '_thy_ life.' THOU SHALT SHINE] RV 'Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.'...
THE FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence....
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...
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...
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...
וּֽ֭ מִ צָּהֳרַיִם יָק֣וּם חָ֑לֶד תָּ֝עֻ֗פָה...
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...
_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...
(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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
_And thine age shall be clearer than the noon-day_ The remainder of thy life in this world shall be more glorious than the sun at noon. Hebrew, יקים, _jakum, shall arise above the noon-day_, or above...
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...
ZOPHAR ADMONISHES JOB TO REPENT...
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...
SHALL BE CLEARER THAN THE NOON DAY: _ Heb._ shall arise above the noonday...
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...
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...
Job 11:17 life H2465 brighter H6965 (H8799) noonday H6672 dark H5774 (H8799) morning H1242 age -...
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...
_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...
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...
1 Chronicles 29:10; Hosea 6:3; Isaiah 58:8; Job 42:11; Luke 2:26;...
Shine — Light in scripture commonly signifies prosperity and glory. Thy comfort, like the morning — light shall shine brighter and brighter, until the perfect day....