Job 11:10-20

10 If God comes along and imprisons [someone] and then calls a court into session, who can stop him?

11 He knows who the scoundrels are. And when he sees sin, doesn't he pay attention to it?

12 But an empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born tame.

13 "If you want to set your heart right, then pray to him.

14 If you're holding on to sin, put it far away, and don't let injustice live in your tent.

15 Then you will be able to show your face without being ashamed, and you will be secure and unafraid.

16 [Then] you will forget your misery and remember it like water that has flowed downstream.

17 Then your life will be brighter than the noonday sun. The darkness in your life will become like morning.

18 You will feel confident because there's hope, and you will look around and rest in safety.

19 You will lie down with no one to frighten you, and many people will try to gain your favor.

20 But the wicked will lose their eyesight. Their escape route will be closed. Their only hope is to take their last breath."

Job 11:10-20 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.