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Job 11 Summary

Zophar Rebukes Job's Words

Zophar confronts Job for his excessive talk and claims of purity, stating that Job deserves less punishment than his iniquity warrants. He declares that God's wisdom is infinitely beyond human comprehension, higher than heaven and deeper than hell. Zophar then urges Job to put away iniquity and prepare his heart toward God, promising that if he does so, he will lift up his face without shame, forget his misery, and dwell securely with hope.

Key themes

God's incomprehensible wisdomRepentance requiredSecurity through purityHuman limitationsDivine judgment

Key verses

Job 11:7-8

Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

Job 11:13-15

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

Job 11:6

And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

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