Job 13:1-2 ASV

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 13:2

What ye know , the same do I know also . Job's friends have claimed to instruct him and set him right, on the ground of their age and experience ( Job 4:8 ; Job 5:27 ; Job 8:8-10 ), He protests that, in the matters on which they have lectured him, they have no advantage over himself—he knows all that they know—in truth, the knowledge is open to all (see Job 12:3 ). I am not inferior unto you. An exact repetition of the second clause of Job 12:3 . read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 13:1

Lo, mine eye hath seen all this - I have seen illustrations of all that I have said, or that you have said about the methods of divine providence. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 13:2

What ye know ... - See the note at Job 12:3. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 13:1

Job 13:1. Lo, mine eye hath seen all this All this which either you or I have discoursed concerning the infinite power and wisdom of God, I know, both by seeing it, by my own observation and experience, and by hearing it from my ancestors. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 13:1-28

Job’s reply to Zophar (12:1-14:22)The reply from Job opens with a sarcastic comment on the supposed wisdom of the three friends. They have merely been repeating general truths that everybody knows (12:1-3). They do not have the troubles Job has, and they make no attempt to understand how Job feels. A good person suffers while wicked people live in peace and security (4-6).Job does not argue with the fact that all life is in God’s hands. What worries him is the interpretation of that fact... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 13:1

Lo. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6 . all this. Some codices, with Syriac and Vulgate, read "all these things". Compare Job 33:29 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 13:1

JOB 13JOB'S FOURTH DISCOURSE CONTINUEDThere are three divisions in this chapter: (1) He accuses his "comforters" of forging lies (Job 13:1-12); (2) he again affirms his uprightness and righteousness (Job 13:13-19); and (3) he proclaimed his submissiveness to God's will (Job 13:20-28). This third paragraph was called by Scherer, "A new attack upon God";[1] but, of course, it is no such thing.Job 13:1-12JOB DENIES THAT HIS FRIENDS' ALLEGATIONS ARE TRUE"Lo, mine eye hath seen all this,Mine ear... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 13:1

CHAP. XIII. Job reproves his friends for their prejudice: he professes his confidence in God, and entreats to know of him why he hides his face from him, and holds him for an enemy. Before Christ 1645. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 13:1

1. all this—as to the dealings of Providence (Job 12:3). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 13:1-19

Job’s repudiation of his friends 12:1-13:19Job 12:2 is irony; his companions were not as wise as they thought. Job pointed out that much of what they had said about God was common knowledge (cf. Job 5:9-10; Job 8:13-19; Job 11:7-9). Nonetheless their conclusion, that the basis of man’s relationship with God is his deeds, did not fit the facts of life. Job cited his own case as proof, as well as the fact that the wicked often prosper (Job 12:6). He said even the animals know that God sends... read more