Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 13:11
Verse Job 13:11. His dread fall upon you?] The very apprehension of his wrath is sufficient to crush you to nothing.
Verse Job 13:11. His dread fall upon you?] The very apprehension of his wrath is sufficient to crush you to nothing.
SHALL NOT HIS EXCELLENCY - His exaltation שׂאת _ś__e__'êth_ from נשׂא _nâśâ'_ to exalt, to lift up), or his majesty, Genesis 49:3. MAKE YOU AFRAID - Fill you with awe and reverence. Shall it not...
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)....
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...
_his excellency_ His _majesty_affright you. They shall be paralyzed when they stand before God who searches the heart....
SHALL NOT HIS EXCELLENCY, &C.— _His majesty shall wholly confound you, and his terror shall fall upon you;_ Job 13:12. _Your boasting shall be like unto dust; your pride like a heap of sand,_ Job 13:1...
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...
_SHALL NOT HIS EXCELLENCY MAKE YOU AFRAID? AND HIS DREAD FALL UPON YOU?_ _ SHALL NOT HIS EXCELLENCY MAKE YOU AFRAID? AND HIS DREAD FALL UPON YOU?_ Make you afraid? - namely, of employing sophisms in...
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 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...
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...
הֲ לֹ֣א שְׂ֭אֵתֹו תְּבַעֵ֣ת אֶתְכֶ֑ם וּ֝ פַחְ
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...
(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...
SHALL NOT HIS EXCELLENCY MAKE YOU AFRAID,.... To commit sin, any sin, and particularly that just mentioned, which they might expect to be reproved for; there is an excellency in the name of God, which...
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? Ver. 11. _Shall not his excellency make you afraid?_] Heb. His highness, his majesty, his surpassing sublimity and transcendent...
_Shall not his excellency_ His infinite wisdom, which sees your secret falsehood, and his justice and power, which can and will punish you for it; _make you afraid?_ Of speaking rashly or falsely of h...
JOB DEFENDS GOD AGAINST THE SUSPICION OF ARBITRARINESS...
Shall not His excellency, the display of God's exalted majesty, MAKE YOU AFRAID AND HIS DREAD FALL UPON YOU? The dread of God as the great Judge should have deterred them from their course of action i...
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...
HIS EXCELLENCY; his infinite wisdom, which sees your secret falsehoods; and his justice and power, which can and will punish you for it. MAKE YOU AFRAID of speaking rashly or falsely of his ways and c...
Job 13:11 excellence H7613 afraid H1204 (H8762) dread H6343 fall H5307 (H8799) Shall -...
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 13:11 WILL NOT HIS MAJESTY TERRIFY YOU? Job questions whether his friends have considered seriously the glory and power of God, as they speak so casually on his behalf....
_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...
Exodus 15:16; Isaiah 8:13; Jeremiah 10:10; Jeremiah 5:22; Job 13:21;...