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Job 11:5
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But if only God would speakand open his lips against you!
But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against you,
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
But oh, that God would speak and open his lips to you,
I wish God would speak and open his lips against you
But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,
"But oh, that God would speak, And open His lips [to speak] against you,
"But if only God would speak, And open His lips against you,
But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against you,
But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!
But would that God might speak,And open His lips against you,
But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,
But I wish he would speak
I wish that God would speak, would open his mouth to answer you,
But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you;
How I wish God would answer you!
But, O that God might speak, and that he would open his lips to you,
But who will grant that God would speak and open His lips against you,
O that God wolde speake, and open his lippes agaynst the,
But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against thee,
But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;
But oh that God would speak, and open His lips against thee;
But, O that God would speake, and open his lippes against thee,
But O that God woulde speake, and open his lippes against thee:
But oh that the Lord would speak to thee, and open his lips to thee!
But Oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
And `Y wolde, that God spak with thee, and openyde hise lippis to thee;
But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against you,
But Oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
But oh, that God would speak, And open His lips against you,
If only God would speak; if only he would tell you what he thinks!
If only God would speak, and open His lips against you.
But O that God would speak, and open his lips to you,
But, in very deed, oh that GOD would speak, that he would open his lips with thee:
And I wish that God would speak with thee, and would open his lips to thee,
But oh, that God would speak, and open his lips to you,
And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.
"But would that God might speak, And open His lips against you,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Job 23:3-7, Job 31:35, Job 33:6-18, Job 38:1, Job 38:2, Job 40:1-5, Job 40:8, Job 42:7
Reciprocal: Job 9:14 - shall I Job 13:3 - Surely
Cross-References
After Shelah was born, Arphaxad lived 403 years. During that time he had other sons and daughters.
After Shelah was 30 years old, his son Eber was born.
After Nahor was born, Serug lived another 200 years. During that time he had other sons and daughters.
After Nahor was 29 years old, his son Terah was born.
I will go and see if they are as bad as I have heard. Then I will know for sure."
Now I will go down and save my people from the Egyptians. I will take them from that land and lead them to a good land where they can be free from these troubles. It is a land filled with many good things. Many different people live in that land: the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
and be ready for me on the third day. On the third day, the Lord will come down to Mount Sinai. And all the people will see me.
Mount Sinai was covered with smoke. Smoke rose off the mountain like smoke from a furnace. This happened because the Lord came down to the mountain in fire. Also the whole mountain began to shake.
So the Lord came down to Mount Sinai. He came from heaven to the top of the mountain. Then he called Moses to come up to the top of the mountain with him. So Moses went up the mountain.
The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord sits on his throne in heaven. He sees everything that happens. He watches people closely.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But O that God would speak,.... To Job, and stop his mouth, so full of words; convict him of his lies, reprove him for his mocks and scoffs, and make him ashamed of them; refute his false doctrine and oppose it, and show him his folly and vanity in imagining it to be pure, and in conceit thinking himself to be free from sin, and even in the sight of God himself: Zophar seems by this wish to suggest, that what his friends had as yet spoke had had no effect upon Job, and signified nothing; and that he despaired of bringing him to any true sense of himself and his case, but that God only could do it; and therefore he entreats he would take him in hand, and speak unto him; as he had by his providences in afflicting him, so by his spirit in teaching and instructing him; and he adds:
and open his lips against thee; or rather, "with thee", or "to thee" a; converse with thee; speak out his mind freely; disclose the secrets of his wisdom, as in Job 11:6, and that for thy good; fully convince thee of thy sins, mistakes, and follies: for, notwithstanding all the heat and warmth of Zophar's spirit, yet, being a good man, as it cannot be thought he should wilfully and knowingly slander Job, and put a false gloss on his words, so neither could he desire any hurt or injury to be done him, or that God would deal with him as an enemy; only convince and reprove him for his sin, and justify himself and his own conduct, which he imagined Job had arraigned.
a עמך μετα σου, Sept. "tecum", Pagninus, Montanus, Beza, Vatablus, Mercerus, Cocceius, Schmidt, Michaelis; "tibi", V. L. "ad te", Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
But 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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 11:5. But O that God would speak — How little feeling, humanity, and charity is there in this prayer!
