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Job 13 |
King James Version
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Job 13:1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all [this], mine ear hath heard and understood it.
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Job 13:2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior unto you.
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Job 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
This means, “I know the tremendous greatness of God, the endless wisdom of the Creator and his prodigious power; but even though I know that, ‘I will speak to the Lord,’ because if I know his power, I also know his justice. For he is just, he supports those who in the meantime, without rendering themselves accusers, speak to him. This teaches people that even though they are very righteous, they have to accept the judgments given to them. That is why ‘I will reason before him, if he wants to.’ For if he does not want, I will remain silent, because I know what is honorable to the servant. It is according to the command of the Lord that I will speak and will have the boldness to ‘reason before him.’ ” - "Homilies on Job 15.13.3"
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Job 13:4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value.
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Job 13:5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Indeed, when senseless words are spoken, it is better to remain in silence, and in being silent, one will show greater wisdom than in speaking. - "Commentary on Job 13.4–5"
A worthless physician is literally one who applies curing strategies that are not useful for the suffering. This happens in two ways: either it is due to lack of experience in the physician or to his wickedness. The friends who are contradicted here speak out of a lack of knowledge rather than wickedness in saying, “You suffer due to your sins.” They think they are bringing words of comfort. They were worthless physicians since they did not discover the true reason. “Whitewash with lies,” Job says against them, who think highly of themselves as if they could cure the affliction that occurs in others. He wishes that they had knowledge of the right times, to speak when it is appropriate and to be silent when it is appropriate, since they have realized their mistake. For that would be the beginning and commencement of wisdom for them. For once they learn that one can also be suffering for a different reason, namely, for inherent virtue to become visible, then Job’s friends will possess wisdom. Even for those who long for insight, it is beneficial to restrain their speech. In Proverbs it is said, “Even fools who keep silent are considered wise.” For if someone realizes that he needs the illuminating teaching of a teacher, this will make him wise. As someone who can talk and teach about wisdom is wise and a teacher, likewise is the one partially wise, who is able to ask what needs to be asked. He did not call him “fool” because he lacked insight altogether but because he had deficiency of insight. The word “If you would only keep silent” is similar to “There is a time, when one has to be silent.” However, since one has to talk, when one has become wise, he adds, “But there is a time to speak.” - "Commentary on Job 13.4–5"
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Job 13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
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Job 13:7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
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Job 13:8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
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Job 13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?
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Job 13:10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
“If he follows your traces,” Job says. Therefore you, who speak so now would have not spoken so, if you were directly involved in the case that is judged. That is, if you were in my place and God were judging your matters with severity, you would have not judged my words as you do now. Or, to say things in a different manner, you, who speak so, would have not been judges of my words. In fact, Job says, even if you speak more, and you do everything to speak in God’s favor, he will not confound you any less and will ask you for explanations. - "Commentary on Job 13.8–10a"
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Job 13:11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
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Job 13:12 Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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Job 13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].
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Job 13:14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
As those, Job says, who devour themselves have a consolation, as those who bite their flesh feel a certain relief in their sufferings, so it is the same with me, when I express myself in these terms, “And I may put my life in my hands.” Consider, above all, this sentence, “I may put my life in my hand.” This means, I will destroy myself! Like those who destroy themselves, I also find a consolation; and that is my consolation, if God does not cause me to perish, my consolation is to give expression to my thoughts. - "Commentary on Job 13.13–14b"
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Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
These words mean, “Even if he kills me, I will support myself with my hope and faith in him.” O admirable man, who, being destined to be killed, praises his killer and looks at him. Indeed Job knew that if he had taken away his life, the same one who is the Lord of Abraham, would have given it back to him. He believed that God was able to make alive those who had died. - "Commentary on Job 13.15"
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Job 13:16 He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
“And he shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall gain no entrance before him.” This means, my consolation is that “fraud shall gain no entrance before him.” “You see, I do not speak like you, with hidden thoughts. I know that there is no dissimulation in him.” - "Commentary on Job 13.15b–16"
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Job 13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
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Job 13:18 Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.
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Job 13:19 Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
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Job 13:20 Only do not two [things] unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
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Job 13:21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
The lack of clarity in the text could be explained in the following way. Job says, “If you want to treat me as the friends say, as if you wanted to show my wickedness, I will hide from your face.” But if I am right, then “withdraw your hand far from me, and do not let your dread terrify me!” Every sinner hides from God’s face, since he does unworthy things. Thus Adam was hiding from God’s face. The opposite of this is to be hidden by God according to the word, “In the shelter of your presence you hide them from human plots.” This brings salvation since God protects the righteous so that he is not stumbling due to human confusion. The “hiddenness of God’s face” in contrast to the revealed might be the mystical thoughts. To gain insight from the works of Providence and God’s creation does not happen in hiddenness but in the open. It is written, “For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made.” To be hidden by God, as mentioned, is bringing salvation. But to hide oneself as Adam did is ruinous. Since this is not true for Job, because he had no sin, he says, “Withdraw your hand from me” so that the friends may experience that I am not suffering because of sin. For the friends did not believe anything else but that Job suffered for his sins. - "Commentary on Job 13.20–21"
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Job 13:22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
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Job 13:23 How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
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Job 13:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Why, Job says, do you not act clearly? Why do you not say, See, this is the reason why I punish you? It is no small consolation for those who are chastised to know the reason for their punishment. That is why Job says, “Make me know my transgressions,” but God will not let him know. - "Commentary on Job 13.24–25b"
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Job 13:25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
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Job 13:26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
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Job 13:27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
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Job 13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
