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
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Job 11 — OverviewJob 11 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BiblePoor Job's wound's were yet bleeding, his sore still runs and ceases
not, but none of his friends bring him any oil, any balm; Zophar, the
third, pours into them as much vinegar as the two former had done. I.…Job 11 — OverviewJob 11 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJob 11:1, Zophar reproves Job for justifying himself; v.5, God’s wisdom is unsearchable; v.13, The assured blessing of repentance.Job 11:1-6Job 11:1-6 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIt is sad to see what intemperate passions even wise and good men are
sometimes betrayed into by the heat of disputation, of which Zophar
here is an instance. Eliphaz began with a very modest preface, ch. iv.…Job 11:1Job 11:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryThen answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said (see the comment on Job 2:11).Job 11:1Job 11:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryZophar, the man of the world.
After the seer and the pedant comes Zophar, who poses as the man of the world. He can pretend to no supernatural illumination, neither has he any claims to put forth on the score of…Job 11:1-6Job 11:1-6 · The Pulpit CommentaryZophar to Job: 1. The opinions of a dogmatist.
I. ZOPHAR'S OPINIONS CONCERNING JOB. A severe but wholly unfounded indictment.
1. Loquacity. Job's previous orations, so full of lofty sentiment and fervent emotion, he…