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William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 13:1-28

XII.BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GODJob 12:1-25; Job 13:1-28; Job 14:1-22Job SPEAKSZOPHAR excites in Job’s mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to speak. In some respects he has made the best attack from the old position, pressing most upon the conscience of Job. He has also used a curt positive tone in setting out the method and principle of Divine government and the judgment he has formed of his friend’s state. Job is accordingly the more... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 13:1-28

CHAPTERS 12-14 Job’s Answer to Zophar 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1-6 ) 2. He describes God’s power (Job 12:7-25 ) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1-13 ) 4. He appeals to God (Job 13:14-28 ) 5. The brevity and trouble of life (Job 14:1-6 ) 6. The ray of light through hope of immortality (Job 14:7-22 ) Job 12:1-6 . He answers not only Zophar but the others as well. Before this Job had expressed his disappointment in them, rebuked them for their unkindness, and assailed as worthless... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 13:3

13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire {a} to reason with God.(a) For although he knew that God was just, which was revealed in his ordinary working and another in his secret counsel, yet he uttered his affection to God, because he was not able to understand the reason he punished him. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 13:4

13:4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all {b} physicians of no value.(b) You do not well apply your medicine to the disease. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 13:7

13:7 Will ye speak {c} wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?(c) He condemns their zeal, who did not have knowledge, nor regarded they to comfort him, but always granted on God’s justice, as though it was not evidently seen in Job, unless they had undertaken the probation of it. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 13:12

13:12 Your {d} remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.(d) Your fame will come to nothing. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 13:14

13:14 Wherefore do I {e} take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?(e) Is not this a revealed sign of my affliction and that I do not complain without cause, seeing that I am thus tormented as though I should tear my own flesh, and put my life in danger? read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 13:16

13:16 He also [shall be] my salvation: for an {f} hypocrite shall not come before him.(f) By which he declares that he is not a hypocrite as they charged him. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 13:18

13:18 Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be {g} justified.(g) That is, cleared and not cut off for my sins, as you think. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 13:19

13:19 Who [is] he [that] will plead {h} with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall {i} give up the ghost.(h) To prove that God punishes me for my sins.(i) If I do not defend my cause, every man will condemn me. read more

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