Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Job 13:9
Is it... ? Figure of speech, Erotesis. App-6.
mocketh. befooleth.
another. Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14.
Is it... ? Figure of speech, Erotesis. App-6.
mocketh. befooleth.
another. Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14.
Verse Job 13:9. _IS IT GOOD THAT HE SHOULD SEARCH YOU OUT?_] Would it be to your credit if God should try your hearts, and uncover the motives of your conduct? Were you tried as I am, how would you ap...
IS IT GOOD THAT HE SHOULD SEARCH YOU OUT? - Would it be well for you if he should go into an investigation of your character, and of the arguments which you adduce? The idea is, that if God should mak...
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 has shown that he can speak of God's working in the world; the friends, however, offer an apology for God, which He Himself must reject. I am not inferior to you in knowledge, says Job (Job 13:2)....
_Is it good_ The words may mean, will it be well (for you) that He should search (or, when He shall search)? or as ch. Job 10:3, do you like that He should search you out? The second clause should rea...
Severe rebuke of the three friends, in which (1) they are charged with partiality for God, and with acting the advocate for Him (Job 13:6); and (2) they are threatened with the chastisement of God for...
IS IT GOOD, &C.— _Is it right for you to pay false adulation to him?_ Houbigant; who observes, that the word _adulate,_ in this clause, properly corresponds with _mock_ in the next....
4. The friends are self-deceived. (Job 13:1-12) TEXT 13:1-12 LO, MINE EYE HATH SEEN ALL _this,_ MINE EAR HATH HEARD AND UNDERSTOOD IT. 2 What ye know, _the same_ DO I KNOW ALSO: I am not inferior...
_IS IT GOOD THAT HE SHOULD SEARCH YOU OUT? OR AS ONE MAN MOCKETH ANOTHER, DO YE SO MOCK HIM?_ Will the issue to you be good, when He searches out you (Maurer) and your arguments? Will you be regarded...
13:9 mocketh (g-14) mock (g-20) Or 'deceiveth ... deceive.' man, (h-17) _ Enosh_ . see Psalms 8:4 ....
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 right about his friends’ unfair words. Later, God told them that he was angry with them (Job 42:7). When God told them this, they obeyed him. They asked Job to pray for them. And God forgave t...
AS ONE MAN MOCKETH ANOTHER. — As one man, with mingled flattery and deception, seeks to impose upon another....
הֲ֭ טֹוב כִּֽי ־יַחְקֹ֣ר אֶתְכֶ֑ם אִם ־כְּ
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...
_Or. Hebrew, "Is it good that he should examine you, would you escape?" (Calmet)_...
(1) В¶ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. (2) What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. (3) Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I de...
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...
IS IT GOOD THAT HE SHOULD SEARCH YOU OUT?.... That is, God; searching is ascribed to him after the manner of men; not that he is ignorant of persons or things he searches after, or exercises that appl...
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him? Ver. 9. _Is it good that he should search you out &c._] _q.d._ Could you have any joy from such a search?...
_Is it good that he should search you out?_ Will it be to your credit and comfort, that he should narrowly examine your hearts and discourses, whether you have uttered truth or falsehood, and whether...
Is it good that He should search you out? Did they honestly believe that it would be well with them, that they would be safe, if He would really go to the bottom of things and search out their motives...
JOB DEFENDS GOD AGAINST THE SUSPICION OF ARBITRARINESS...
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...
1-12 With self-preference, Job declared that he needed not to be taught by them. Those who dispute are tempted to magnify themselves, and lower their brethren, more than is fit. When dismayed or dist...
IS IT GOOD? will it be to your credit and comfort? SEARCH YOU OUT, i.e. narrowly examine your hearts and discourses, whether you have uttered truth or falsehood, and whether your speeches proceed from...
Job 13:9 well H2895 (H8804) out H2713 (H8799) mock H2048 (H8762) mocks H2048 (H8763) man H58
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 13:3 Before he turns to address his lament directly to God (Job 13:20), Job argues that his friends have misdiagnosed him (WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS;...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 13:6 Using legal terminology, Job says his friends are showing favoritism to his divine opponent in making his CASE for him (v. Job 13:8)....
_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...
Galatians 6:7; Galatians 6:8; Isaiah 28:22; Jeremiah 17:10; Job 17:2;...