God’s Word Translation
Job 11:5
5I only wish God would speak and open his mouth ⌞to talk⌟ to you.
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 your empty talk silence others so that you can make fun of us without any shame? 4You say, ‘My teaching is morally correct,’ and, ‘As you can see, I’m innocent.’ I only wish God would speak and open his mouth ⌞to talk⌟ to you. 6He would tell you the secrets of wisdom, because ⌞true⌟ wisdom is twice ⌞as great as your wisdom⌟, and you would know that God forgets your sin. 7“Can you discover God’s hidden secrets, or are you able to find the Almighty’s limits?
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 23:3“If only I knew where I could find God! I would go where he lives.
- Job 31:35“If only I had someone who would listen to me! Look, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me. Let the prosecutor write ⌞his complaint⌟ on a scroll.
- Job 33:6Indeed, I stand in front of God as you do. I, too, was formed from a piece of clay.
- Job 38:1Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm.
- Job 40:1The Lord responded to Job,
- Job 42:7After the Lord had said those things to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz from Teman, “I’m very angry with you and your two friends because you didn’t speak what is right about me as my servant Job has done.
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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