Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 11:7
Canst thou by searching find out God? Literally, Canst thou attain to the searching out of God?
Canst thou by searching find out God? Literally, Canst thou attain to the searching out of God?
Verse Job 11:7. _CANST THOU BY SEARCHING FIND OUT GOD?_] What is God? A Being self-existent, eternal, infinite, immense, without bounds, incomprehensible either by mind, or time, or space. Who then ca...
CANST THEN, BY SEARCHING, FIND OUT GOD? - In order to illustrate the sentiment which he had just expressed, that the secrets of divine wisdom must be far above our comprehension, Zophar introduces her...
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...
CANST. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. THE ALMIGHTY. Hebrew El Shaddai. App-4....
The verse means, Canst thou fathom or conceive God? The special side of God's being, which Zophar declares to be unfathomable, is His wisdom or omniscience. This is the point in question, for it is th...
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...
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...
CANST THOU BY SEARCHING FIND OUT GOD?— _Canst thou penetrate into the secrets or depths of God? Canst thou fathom the immensity of the Almighty?_ Houbigant and Heath....
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;...
_CANST THOU BY SEARCHING FIND OUT GOD? CANST THOU FIND OUT THE ALMIGHTY UNTO PERFECTION?_ Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? х_ TAKLIYT_ (H8503)] - rather, 'Penetrate (reach) to the pe...
THE FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence....
RM 'Canst thou find out the deep things of God?'...
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...
הַ חֵ֣קֶר אֱלֹ֣והַ תִּמְצָ֑א אִ֤ם עַד ־תַּכְל
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...
_Perfectly? If not, it is rash to find fault. (Menochius)_...
(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...
CANST THOU BY SEARCHING FIND OUT GOD?.... God is not to be found out by human search; that there is a God may be found out by inquiring into the book of nature, by considering the creatures that are m...
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? Ver. 7. _Canst thou by searching find out God?_] _i.e._ The nature of God, or the course of his providence, and...
_Canst thou by searching find out God?_ That is, discover all the depths of his wisdom, and the reasons of all his actions. _It is as high as heaven_ Thou canst not measure the heights of the visible...
Canst thou by searching find out God, reaching the bottom of the mystery of God's wonderful essence? CANST THOU FIND OUT THE ALMIGHTY UNTO PERFECTION, penetrating to the uttermost parts of the divine...
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...
This is. wonderful description of God's wisdom and it may have been intended as. rebuke to Job's claim of wisdom (Job 9:4). "Zophar pointed out that the Lord's mysterious, plummetless, unknowable wisd...
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...
FIND OUT GOD, i.e. discover all the depths of his wisdom, and the reasons of all his actions....
Job 11:7 search H2714 H4672 (H8799) God H433 out H4672 (H8799) limits H8503 Almighty H7706 Canst -...
Job 11:7 Zophar's question made Job burn with passion. Over three Chapter s, in alternate hope and despair, but always with fierce intensity, turning and returning his thoughts, but always reassertin...
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...
_Canst thou by searching find out God?_ THE UNSEARCHABLENESS OF GOD You are not to suppose that your God is to be utterly unknown, and that because your faculties cannot pierce the inmost recesses o...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 11:1 Like Bildad (Job 8:1), Zophar accuses Job of being presumptuous and speaking empty words. ⇐
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 11:7 There is irony in this verse that Zophar will realize only during the events of the epilogue (Job 42:7). Zophar accuses Job of wrongly thinking he can know the deep things of God
_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 Corinthians 2:10; 1 Corinthians 2:16; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Ephesians 3:8;...
Find out — Discover all the depths of his wisdom, and the reasons of his actions?...
Can God be known by humans? PROBLEM: Job seems to imply that God cannot be known by human reason. Paul also declared that God’s judgments are “unsearchable … and His ways past finding out” (Romans 11:...