约伯记 13:11-12 RCUVSS

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 13:1-28

Chapter 13Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood. Now what you know, the same I also know. I am not inferior to you. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I would desire to reason with God ( Job 13:1-3 ).Tell me to stretch out my hands to God. I'd love to. I'd love to reason with God. But you guys...You're a bunch of forgers of lies, you are physicians of no value. Oh that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be to your wisdom ( Job 13:4-5 ).If you'd... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 13:1-28

Job 13:4 . Forgers of lies, misconstruing the ways of providence. Job 13:10 , He will surely reprove you, though under a specious veil you accept of persons. Job 13:12 . Your remembrances are like ashes. Your treasured wisdom is vain, and profiteth not. Your bodies of clay; profecto dorsa vestra sunt dorsa luti; truly your backs are backs of clay. The sense is, If God touch you, nothing remains of your glory but ashes; if he lay his rod on your back, you are trampled as clay... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 13:11

Job 13:11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? Ver. 11. Shall not his excellency make you afraid? ] Heb. His highness, his majesty, his surpassing sublimity and transcendent glory; shall not this frighten you, and rein you in from wrongly dealing and warping? "Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain," Jeremiah 10:7 . And, "Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence?" Jeremiah 5:22 . If an earthly king... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 13:12

Job 13:12 Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. Ver. 12. Your remembrances are like unto ashes, &c. ] Mr Beza readeth the whole verse thus: Your speeches are the words of ashes, and your stately bulwarks are but bulwarks of clay. And thus he paraphraseth: For these things which you allege as matters gathered by long observations, and which you thunder out against me as if they were most certain and grounded axioms, are indeed no more sound and substantial... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 13:11

Shall: Psalms 119:120, Jeremiah 5:22, Jeremiah 10:10, Matthew 10:28, Revelation 15:3, Revelation 15:4 his dread: Job 13:21, Exodus 15:16, Isaiah 8:13 Reciprocal: Job 9:34 - let not Job 31:23 - by Mark 5:15 - and they read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 13:12

remembrances: Job 18:17, Exodus 17:14, Psalms 34:16, Psalms 102:12, Psalms 109:15, Proverbs 10:7, Isaiah 26:14 ashes: Genesis 18:27 to bodies: Job 4:19, Genesis 2:7, 2 Corinthians 5:1 Reciprocal: Job 33:6 - I also Daniel 4:36 - added read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 13:12

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.Remembrance — Mouldering and coming to nothing. And the consideration of our mortality should make us afraid of offending God. Your mementos are like unto ashes, contemptible and unprofitable. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 13:11

11. His dread fall upon you Pineda gives, in this place, a Spanish proverb, The hill and the stones are God’s: that is, the vantage ground is his. read more