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Job 11:5
5So God himself should answer you. He should tell you what he thinks.
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
3Your proud words will not cause other people to say nothing. We must make you ashamed when you laugh at us. 4You have said, “The things that I teach are true. God knows that I am a good man.” So God himself should answer you. He should tell you what he thinks. 6He would show you the secret of wisdom. True wisdom is not easy to understand. But you must understand this: God is punishing you less than you deserve. 7You cannot discover everything about God. You cannot know how powerful he is.
Read all of Job 11Job 11:5 word by word
וְֽאוּלָ֗ם מִֽי־יִתֵּ֣ן אֱל֣וֹהַּ דַּבֵּ֑ר וְיִפְתַּ֖ח שְׂפָתָ֣יו עִמָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 11:5
- Job 23:3I would like to know where to find him. Then I could go to the place where he lives.
- Job 31:35I want someone to listen to me! All the things that I say are true. Almighty God should give me an answer! I need to know what I have done that is wrong. He should write down the reason why I am guilty!
- Job 33:6Listen! When God looks at us, we are the same as each other. God used clay to make both of us.
- Job 38:1The Lord spoke to Job from the middle of the storm. This is what he said:
- Job 40:1The Lord said to Job,
- Job 42:7When the Lord had spoken to Job, he said this to Eliphaz, the man from Teman: ‘I am very angry with you and with your two friends. The things that my servant Job has said about me are true. But the things that you said were not right.
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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