Job 11:13-20

13 As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

14 if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,

15 then indeed you will lift up your face without blemish; you will stand firm and unafraid.

16 For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.

17 Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

18 You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.

19 You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.

20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”

Job 11:13-20 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.