Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 11:8
It is as high as heaven. — Literally, The heights of heaven; what canst thou do? it is deeper than the grave; what canst thou know?
It is as high as heaven. — Literally, The heights of heaven; what canst thou do? it is deeper than the grave; what canst thou know?
Verse Job 11:8. IT IS _AS HIGH AS HEAVEN_] High as the heavens, what canst thou work? Deep below _sheol_, (the invisible world,) what canst thou know? Long beyond the earth, and broad beyond the sea,...
IT IS AS HIGH AS HEAVEN - That is, the knowledge of God; or the subject is as high as heaven. The idea is, that man is incompetent to examine, with accuracy, an object that is as far off as the heaven...
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...
WHAT. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. HELL. Hebrew. _Sheol._ App-35....
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...
His wisdom is immeasurable, unfathomable. The words are an exclamation: heights of heaven! what canst thou do? thou art impotent before it, to scale it or reach it. _deeper than hell_ i. e. than Sheo...
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...
IT IS AS HIGH AS HEAVEN— The universe was divided by the ancient Hebrews into the upper and the lower, the visible and invisible hemisphere; the one they call שׁמים _shamaiim,_ or _heaven;_ the other...
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;...
_IT IS AS HIGH AS HEAVEN; WHAT CANST THOU DO? DEEPER THAN HELL; WHAT CANST THOU KNOW?_ It is as high as heaven - the "wisdom" of God (Job 11:6). The abruptness of the Hebrew is forcible: 'The heights...
THE FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence....
_It_] God's wisdom....
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...
גָּבְהֵ֣י שָׁ֭מַיִם מַה ־תִּפְעָ֑ל עֲמֻקָּ֥ה מִ֝...
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...
[It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? (d) deeper than hell; what canst thou know? (d) That is, this perfection of God, and if man is not able to comprehend the height of the heavens, the dep...
(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...
[IT IS] AS HIGH AS HEAVEN; WHAT CANST THOU DO?.... Or, "is higher than the heavens" i; either the wisdom of God and the secrets of it; the perfection of his wisdom, by which he has made the heavens; o...
Job 11:8 [It is] as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? Ver. 8. _It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do?_] And much higher; it is as the highnesses of hea...
_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...
It is as high as heaven, literally, "heights of heaven," namely, those are the distances which extend between man's understanding and God's infinity; WHAT CANST THOU DO? DEEPER THAN HELL, far below th...
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...
AS HIGH AS HEAVEN: _ Heb._ the heights of heaven...
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...
Thou canst not measure the heights of the visible heavens, much less of the Divine perfections. WHAT CANST THOU DO, to wit, to find him out? WHAT CANST THOU KNOW, concerning him and his ways, which ar...
Job 11:8 higher H1363 do H6466 (H8799) Deeper H6013 know H3045 (H8799) It is as high as heaven - Heb. the heights of heaven,...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 6:18; Amos 9:2; Ephesians 3:18; Ephesians 3:19; Isaiah 5