American Standard Version
Job 11:5
5But oh that God would speak,And open his lips against thee,
Job 11:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
- New International Version (NIV)Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you
- English Standard Version (ESV)But oh, that God would speak and open his lips to you,
- New King James Version (NKJV)But oh, that God would speak, And open His lips against you,
Context of Job 11:5
3Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? 4For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes. But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against thee, 6And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. 7Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Read all of Job 11Job 11:5 word by word
וְֽאוּלָ֗ם מִֽי־יִתֵּ֣ן אֱל֣וֹהַּ דַּבֵּ֑ר וְיִפְתַּ֖ח שְׂפָתָ֣יו עִמָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 11:5
- Job 23:3Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
- Job 31:35Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me) Andthat I hadthe indictment which mine adversary hath written!
- Job 33:6Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.
- Job 38:1Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
- Job 40:1Moreover Jehovah answered Job, and said,
- Job 42:7And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Commentaries on Job 11:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5But O that God would speak - How little feeling, humanity, and charity is there in this prayer!Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5But oh that God would speak - Hebrew, “and truly, who will give that God should speak.” It is the expression of an earnest wish that God would address him, and bring him to a proper sense of his ill desert. The meaning is, that if God should speak to him he would by no means find himself so holy as he now claimed to be.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves: Zophar believed that disasters were God's punishment for sins (compare 34:36).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-20FIRST SERIES. 2. Zophar assails Job for his empty words, and indirectly, the two friends, for their weak reply. Taciturnity is highly prized among Orientals (Pr 10:8, 19).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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