Job 11:12
What meaning of the job 11:12 in the Bible?
What does Job 11:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For vainc man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt."
What does Job 11:12 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For vainc man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt."
Verse Job 11:12. _FOR VAIN MAN WOULD BE WISE_] The original is difficult and uncertain, ואיש נבוב ילבב _veish nabub yillabeb_, "And shall the hollow man assume courage," or "pride himself?" Or, as Mr...
FOR VAIN MAN - Margin, “empty.” נבוב _nâbûb_, according to Gesenius, from the root נבב _nâbab_, to bore through, and then to be hollow; metaphorical, “empty,” “foolish.” The Septuagint, strangely e...
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) Job...
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...
VAIN MAN WOULD BE WISE. Figure of speech _Paronomasia._ App-6. "A man", _nabub yillabeb =_ "a, man senseless [would become] sensible" if God did always punish immediately....
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 tha...
FOR VAIN MAN WOULD BE WISE— _A man who hath understanding will become wise; but he who is as the wild ass hath no prudence._ So Houbigant translates the verse; and he adds, that Zophar here means to s...
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;...
_FOR VAIN MAN WOULD BE WISE, THOUGH MAN BE BORN LIKE A WILD ASS'S COLT._ Vain man - hollow or empty х_ NAABUWB_ (H5014)]. WOULD BE WISE - wants to consider himself "wise:" opposed to God's "wisdom...
11:12 senseless (c-3) Lit. 'empty.' [like] (d-12) Others read 'Man is stupid, he is senseless, man is born like.'...
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...
FOR VAIN MAN WOULD BE WISE, &c., is extremely difficult, because it is hard to distinguish subject and predicate. Literally, it runs, _And hollow man is instructed, and the wild ass’s colt is born a m...
וְ אִ֣ישׁ נָ֭בוּב יִלָּבֵ֑ב וְ עַ֥יִר פֶּ֝֗רֶא אָדָ֥ם יִוָּלֵֽד׃...
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...
For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild (f) ass's colt. (f) That is, without understanding, so that whatever gifts he has afterward come from God, and not from nature....
_Is. Hebrew, "is he heart? or wise, (Calmet) he who is born like a," &c. Shall he assert his independence, or pretend to be wise? (Haydock) --- The Hebrews place wisdom in the heart, as we do courage,...
(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...
FOR VAIN MAN WOULD BE WISE,.... Or "hollow" r, empty man; empty of all that is good, though full of all unrighteousness; without God, the knowledge, love, and fear of him; without Christ, the knowledg...
For vain man would be wise, though man be born [like] a wild ass's colt. Ver. 12. _For vain man would be wise_] Heb. Hollow man, that is, as void of grace as a hollow tree is of heart of oak. _ Would...
_For_, or, _yet, vain man would be wise_ Man, who since the fall is void of all true wisdom, pretends to be wise, and able to pass a censure upon all God's ways and works. _Born like a wild ass's colt...
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...
vain: _ Heb._ empty...
"AN IDIOT WILL BECOME INTELLIGENT WHEN THE FOAL OF. WILD DONKEY IS BORN. MAN": Zophar is here calling Job. nitwit, the word "idiot" means. man who is hollowed out, i.e., empty in the head. "The chance...
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 wo...
Or, _Yet_, or _But, vain_ or _empty man_ (that foolish creature, that since the fall is void of all true wisdom and solid knowledge and judgment of the things of God) would be wise, i.e. pretends to b...
Job 11:12 empty-headed H5014 (H8803) man H376 wise H3823 (H8735) donkeys H6501 colt H5895 born H3205 (H8735) man H120 For vain - Heb. For empty, Psalms 62:9-10, Psalms 73:22, Psalms 92:6;...
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. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length...
_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 3:18; Ecclesiastes 3:18; Ephesians 2:3; James 2:20; James 3:13; Jeremiah 2:24; Job 12:2; Job 12:3; Job 15:14; Job 28:28;...
Man — That since the fall is void of all true wisdom, pretends to be wise, and able to pass a censure upon all God's ways and works. Colt — Ignorant, and dull, and stupid, as to divine things, and yet...