Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 13:16
He also [shall be] my salvation: for an (f) hypocrite shall not come before him.
(f) By which he declares that he is not a hypocrite as they charged him.
He also [shall be] my salvation: for an (f) hypocrite shall not come before him.
(f) By which he declares that he is not a hypocrite as they charged him.
Verse Job 13:16. _HE ALSO_ SHALL BE _MY SALVATION_] He will save me, _because_ I trust in him. _A HYPOCRITE_] A _wicked man_ shall never be able to stand before him. I am conscious of this, and were...
HE ALSO SHALT BE MY SALVATION - See the notes at Isaiah 12:2. Literally, “He is unto me for salvation,” that is, “I put my trust in him, and he will save me. The opportunity of appearing before God, a...
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 turns to plead his cause with God. He will speak whatever it costs (Job 13:13). This also, he says, shall be my deliverance, that a godless man will not come before Him. Job means that his deliver...
Job now turns from his friends, whom he commands to be silent, to his great plea with God, resuming the intention expressed in Job 13:3. The passage has two parts, one preliminary, Job 13:13, exhibiti...
_He also shall be_ Rather, THIS ALSO. _for a hypocrite shall not_ Rather, THAT A GODLESS MAN WILL NOT; see on ch. Job 8:13. A godless man will not dare to go before God; but Job dares and desires; and...
5. Job would dare to present his case before God. (Job 13:13-19) TEXT 13:13-19 13 HOLD your PEACE, LET ME ALONE, that I may speak; AND LET COME ON ME WHAT WILL. 14 Wherefore should I TAKE my flesh...
_HE ALSO SHALL BE MY SALVATION: FOR AN HYPOCRITE SHALL NOT COME BEFORE HIM._ He - rather, 'This also already speaks in my behalf (literally, 'for my saving acquittal'); because a hypocrite would not...
13:16 a (a-8) Some read 'He himself shall be my salvation, for a.'...
HE] RV 'This.' The v. may mean that God would pardon his boldness but not a false confession of sin: see Job 42:7....
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...
An evil man is afraid to meet God. God will punish that man for his evil deeds. Job’s friends thought that Job was evil. They warned him not to argue with God. They told him to change his behaviour....
HE ALSO SHALL BE MY SALVATION. — Comp. Psalms 27:1, &c. It is characteristic of Job that, living, as he probably did, outside the pale of Israel, he nevertheless shared the faith and knowledge of God’...
גַּם ־הוּא ־לִ֥י לִֽ ישׁוּעָ֑ה כִּי ־לֹ֥א
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...
_Hypocrite. If I were such, I should not dare to appeal so boldly to his tribunal. (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...
HE ALSO [SHALL BE] MY SALVATION,.... Job, though he asserted the integrity of his heart and life, yet did not depend on his ways and works for salvation, but only on the Lord himself; this is to be un...
He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. Ver. 16. _He also shall be my salvation_] So long as I judge myself God will not judge me, 1 Corinthians 11:32; nay, he wi...
_He also shall be my salvation_ I rest assured that he will save me out of these miseries, sooner or later, one way or other, if not with a temporal, yet with an eternal salvation after death; of whic...
He also shall be my salvation; for an hypocrite shall not come before Him; that was Job's trust, his pledge of salvation, of final victory in the trial which he was now undergoing, that an unholy pers...
Job's Comfort and Prayer...
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...
"Job believes that if he could, as it were, present his case in court with God, that would be his salvation (vindication), for. godless man could not stand before Him" _(Jackson p. 43)._...
13-22 Job resolved to cleave to the testimony his own conscience gave of his uprightness. He depended upon God for justification and salvation, the two great things we hope for through Christ. Tempor...
I rest assured that he will save me out of these miseries sooner or later, one way or other, if not with a temporal, yet with an eternal salvation after death; of which he speaks JOB 19:25, &c. FOR; o...
Job 13:16 salvation H3444 hypocrite H2611 come H935 (H8799) before H6440 my salvation - Exodus 15:2;...
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...
_For an hypocrite shall not come before Him._ THE SEVERAL SORTS OF HYPOCRISY Job’s friends urged that because God had grievously afflicted him, he must needs have been a very wicked man. Job in reply...
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 13:16 The SALVATION Job hopes for is that he will be able to make his case before God, and that God will be his redeemer (see Job 19:25)....
_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...
Acts 13:47; Exodus 15:2; Isaiah 12:2; Isaiah 33:14; Jeremiah 3:23;...