Job 11:15-20

15 Want dan zult gij uw aangezicht opheffen uit de gebreken, en zult vast wezen, en niet vrezen.

16 Want gij zult de moeite vergeten, en harer gedenken als der wateren, die voorbijgegaan zijn.

17 Ja, uw tijd zal klaarder dan de middag oprijzen; gij zult uitvliegen, als de morgenstond zult gij zijn.

18 En gij zult vertrouwen, omdat er verwachting zal zijn; en gij zult graven, gerustelijk zult gij slapen;

19 En gij zult nederliggen, en niemand zal u verschrikken; en velen zullen uw aangezicht smeken.

20 Maar de ogen der goddelozen zullen bezwijken, en de toevlucht zal van hen vergaan; en hun verwachting zal zijn de uitblazing der ziel.

Job 11:15-20 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.