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Job 11:2-12

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2 "Should 1a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right?
3 Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
4 For 2you say, 'My 3doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's[a] eyes.'
5 But oh, that God would speak and open his lips to you,
6 and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in 4understanding.[b] Know then that God 5exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
7 6"Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
8 It is 7higher than heaven[c]--what can you do? Deeper than Sheol--what can you know?
9 Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.
10 If he 8passes through and 9imprisons and summons the court, who can 10turn him back?
11 For he knows 11worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
12 But a stupid man will get understanding when 12a wild donkey's colt is 13born a man!
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Job 11:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 11

In this chapter Zophar the Naamathite, Job's third friend, attacks him, and the with great acrimony and severity, and with much indecency; he charges him not only with loquacity, and vain babbling, but with lying, and with scoffing at God, and good men, Job 11:1-3; which he attempts to support by some things Job had said, misrepresented by him, Job 11:4; and wishes that God would take him in hand, and convince him of the wisdom of the divine proceedings with him, and of his lenity and mercy to him, Job 11:5,6; and then discourses of the unsearchableness of God in his counsels, and conduct; of his sovereignty, and of his power, and of the vanity and folly of men, Job 11:7-19; and as his friends before him, having insinuated that Job was guilty of some heinous sin, or sins, and especially of hypocrisy, advises him to repentance and reformation, and then it would be well with him; and he should enjoy much comfort, peace, and safety, even to old age, Job 11:13-19; and concludes it should go ill with the wicked man and the hypocrite, such as he suggests Job was, Job 11:20.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

  • 1. Proverbs 10:19; Ecclesiastes 5:3
  • 2. Job 10:7
  • 3. Deuteronomy 32:2; Proverbs 4:2; Isaiah 29:24
  • 4. Job 5:12(Heb.)
  • 5. [Ezra 9:13]
  • 6. Job 5:9; Ecclesiastes 3:11; Ecclesiastes 8:17; [Psalms 145:3; Romans 11:33]
  • 7. [Job 22:12; Psalms 139:8]
  • 8. See Job 9:11-16
  • 9. See Job 12:14
  • 10. Job 9:12; Job 23:13
  • 11. Psalms 26:4
  • 12. See Job 39:5-8
  • 13. [Psalms 73:22; Ecclesiastes 3:18]

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Hebrew your
  • [b]. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  • [c]. Hebrew The heights of heaven
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