Chapter 11:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
Job 11
Concise Complete
Zophar reproves Job. (1-6) God's perfections and almighty
power. (7-12) Zophar assures Job of blessings if he repented. (13-20)
Verses 1-6 Zophar
attacked Job with great vehemence. He represented him as a man that loved to
hear himself speak, though he could say nothing to the purpose, and as a man
that maintained falsehoods. He desired God would show Job that less punishment
was exacted than he deserved. We are ready, with much assurance, to call God to
act in our quarrels, and to think that if he would but speak, he would take our
part. We ought to leave all disputes to the judgment of God, which we are sure
is according to truth; but those are not always right who are most forward to
appeal to the Divine judgment.
Verses 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 would be wise, would be thought so, though he is
born like a wild ass's colt, so unteachable and untameable. Man is a vain
creature; empty, so the word is. Yet he is a proud creature, and self-conceited.
He would be wise, would be thought so, though he will not submit to the laws of
wisdom. He would be wise, he reaches after forbidden wisdom, and, like his first
parents, aiming to be wise above what is written, loses the tree of life for the
tree of knowledge. Is such a creature as this fit to contend with God?
Verses 13-20 Zophar
exhorts Job to repentance, and gives him encouragement, yet mixed with hard
thoughts of him. He thought that worldly prosperity was always the lot of the
righteous, and that Job was to be deemed a hypocrite unless his prosperity was
restored. Then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; that is, thou mayst
come boldly to the throne of grace, and not with the terror and amazement
expressed in ch. 9:34. If we are looked upon in the face of the Anointed, our
faces that were cast down may be lifted up; though polluted, being now washed
with the blood of Christ, they may be lifted up without spot. We may draw near
in full assurance of faith, when we are sprinkled from an evil conscience,
hebrews 10:22.
Chapter 11:
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