Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 11:20
As the giving up of the ghost. — Omit the as of comparison; or do so, and take the margin. Thus ends the first part of this mighty argument, the first fytte of this grand poem.
As the giving up of the ghost. — Omit the as of comparison; or do so, and take the margin. Thus ends the first part of this mighty argument, the first fytte of this grand poem.
Verse Job 11:20. _THE EYES OF THE WICKED SHALL FAIL_] They shall be continually looking out for help and deliverance; but their expectation shall be cut off. _AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE_] They shall...
BUT THE EYES OF THE WICKED SHALL FAIL - That is, they shall be wearied out by anxiously looking for relief from their miseries. “Noyes.” Their expectation shall be vain, and they shall find no relief....
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...
WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. GHOST. breath. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
Zophar turns to Job in exhortation and promise....
Zophar concludes by setting in opposition to this picture another, the fate of the wicked. _their hope shall be as the giving_ Rather, SHALL BE THE GIVING UP of the ghost; death is what they have to l...
THE EYES OF THE WICKED SHALL FAIL— i.e. "Their hope shall be deferred and utterly disappointed." The latter clause נפשׁ מפח ותקותם מנהם אבד ומנוס _umanos abad minnehem, vethikvatham mappach napesh,_ i...
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...
_BUT THE EYES OF THE WICKED SHALL FAIL, AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE, AND THEIR HOPE SHALL BE AS THE GIVING UP OF THE GHOST._ But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. A warning to Job, if he would not tur...
_As_] RV omits. There is nothing before the wicked but death. The statement is general, but Zophar, unlike the other friends, hints that Job may belong to the wicked....
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...
Zophar thought that wicked people always have terrible lives. In fact, this was his explanation for Job’s troubles. Job’s troubles were so terrible that he wanted to die (Job 7:15-16). Job did not kn...
וְ עֵינֵ֥י רְשָׁעִ֗ים תִּ֫כְלֶ֥ינָה וּ֭ מָנֹוס...
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...
But the eyes (k) of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost. (k) He shows that contrary things will come to them who do not repent....
_Soul, because hope deferred causeth pain to the soul, Proverbs xiii. 12. (Menochius) --- Hebrew, "their hope shall be the sorrow, or the breathing out of the soul." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "the giv...
REFLECTIONS READER! how happy is it for you and for me, that we live under a brighter dispensation, than Job's counselors, and are taught by him in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowled...
(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 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...
BUT THE EYES OF THE WICKED SHALL FAIL,.... Either through grief and envy at Job's prosperity, and with looking for his fall into troubles again; or rather through expectation of good things for themse...
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope [shall be as] the giving up of the ghost. Ver. 20. _But the eyes of the wicked shall fail_] Contraries illustrate one...
_The eyes of the wicked shall fail_ Either through grief and tears for their sore calamities, or with long looking for what they shall never attain. _Failing of the eyes_ is one of those expressions i...
ZOPHAR ADMONISHES JOB TO REPENT...
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, wasting away in a vain search for help, AND THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE, every refuge being taken away from them, AND THEIR HOPE SHALL BE AS THE GIVING UP OF THE GHOST...
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...
THEY SHALL NOT ESCAPE: _ Heb._ flight shall perish from them GIVING UP OF THE GHOST: Or, a puff of breath...
However if Job refused to repent then any hope he had would die with him. "These first speeches of Job's compatriots offered no comfort. Though their generalities about God's goodness, justice, and wi...
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...
FAIL; or _be consumed_; either with grief and fears for their sore calamities; or with long looking for what they shall never attain, as this phrase is taken, PSALMS 69:3 JEREMIAH 14:6 LAMENTATIONS 4:...
Job 11:20 eyes H5869 wicked H7563 fail H3615 (H8799) escape H6 (H8804) H4498 loss H4646 life...
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...
_But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. .. and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost._ THE DOOM OF THE WICKED 1. Here is the loss of energy. “The eyes of the wicked shall fail.” The soul...
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...
Amos 2:14; Amos 5:19; Amos 5:20; Amos 9:1; Deuteronomy 28:65;...
Fail — Either with grief and tears for their sore calamities: or with long looking for what they shall never attain. Their hope — They shall never obtain deliverance out of their distresses, but shall...