Job 11:5

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

3Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock? 4For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’ But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you, 6and reveal to you the secrets of wisdom – for true wisdom has two sides – so that you would know that God has forgiven some of your sins. 7“Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?

Job 11:5 word by word

וְֽאוּלָ֗ם מִֽי־יִתֵּ֣ן אֱל֣וֹהַּ דַּבֵּ֑ר וְיִפְתַּ֖ח שְׂפָתָ֣יו עִמָּֽךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Butאוּלָם'ûlâm · butH199
• oh thatנָתַןnâthan · to give: if only!H5414
• Godאֱלֹהַּ'ĕlôahh 'ĕlôahh · godH433
• would speakדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
• and openפָּתַחpâthach · to openH6605
• his lipsשָׂפָהώâphâh ώepheth · lipsH8193

Cross-references for Job 11:5

• Job 23:3O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!
• Job 31:35“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature – let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.
• Job 33:6Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
• Job 38:1Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:
• Job 40:1Then the Lord answered Job:
• Job 42:7After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

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

Topics related to Job 11:5

• Self-Righteousness
• Uncharitableness
• Wisdom

In the dictionaries

• God
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Confess
• Deserve
• Lip
• Measure
• Mock
• Suit
• Talk
• Christianity

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