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Job 11:4
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You have said, “My teaching is sound,and I am pure in your sight.”
For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, I am clean in your eyes.'
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'
You say, ‘My teachings are right, and I am clean in God's sight.'
For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.'
"For you have said, 'My teaching (doctrine) [that God knowingly afflicts the righteous] is pure, And I am innocent in your eyes.'
"For you have said, 'My teaching is pure, And I am innocent in your eyes.'
For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, I am clean in your eyes.'
For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.
You have said, ‘My learning is pure,And I am innocent in your eyes.'
You claim to be innocent and argue that your beliefs are acceptable to God.
"You claim that your teaching is pure; you tell [God], ‘I am clean in your sight.'
For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
You say to God, ‘My arguments are right, and you can see I am pure.'
For you say, I was led righteously, and I am pure in my sight.
You claim that what you say is true; you claim you are pure in the sight of God.
For you say, ‘My teaching is pure, and I am clean in your sight.'
For you have said, My doctrine is pure; and, I am clean in Your eyes.
Wilt thou saye vnto God: The thinge that I take in honde, is perfecte, & I am clene in thy sight?
For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.
You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.
And thou hast said: 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in Thine eyes.'
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.
For thou hast sayde, my doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thyne eyes.
For say not, I am pure in my works, and blameless before him.
For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
For thou seidist, My word is cleene, and Y am cleene in thi siyt.
For you say, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in your eyes.
For thou hast said, My doctrine [is] pure, and I am clean in thy eyes.
For you have said, "My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in your eyes.'
You claim, ‘My beliefs are pure,' and ‘I am clean in the sight of God.'
For you say, ‘What I believe is pure. I am without fault in Your eyes.'
For you say, ‘My conduct is pure, and I am clean in God's sight.'
Since thou hast said, Right is my doctrine, and pure am I in his eyes.
For thou hast said: My word is pure, and I am clean in thy sight.
For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'
And thou sayest, `Pure [is] my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'
"For you have said, 'My teaching is pure, And I am innocent in your eyes.'
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
For thou: Job 6:10, Job 10:7, 1 Peter 3:15
I am clean: Job 6:29, Job 6:30, Job 7:20, Job 9:2, Job 9:3, Job 14:4, Job 34:5, Job 34:6, Job 35:2
Reciprocal: Exodus 38:21 - tabernacle of testimony Job 9:14 - shall I Job 33:9 - clean
Cross-References
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and afterward as well, when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of old, men of renown.
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
And after he had become the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: 'The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.'"
Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For thou hast said,.... What follows is produced to support the charge, especially of lying, which seems to be founded on what he had said in Job 6:10;
my doctrine [is] pure; free from error, unadulterated, unmixed, not blended with Heathenish principles and human doctrines; but tending to purity of heart and life, as every word of God, and doctrine that comes from him, is pure, yea, very pure, like silver purified seven times; and such was Job's doctrine which he "received" from God, "took" y up and professed, taught and delivered to others, so far as was agreeable to the will of God, and the revelation he had then made: and it appears that Job had very clear and sublime notions of God, of his being and perfections, of his works of nature, providence, and grace; of Christ his living Redeemer, of redemption and justification by him, and of the resurrection of the dead; and had purer and better notions of divine things than his friends had, and spoke better things of God than they did, God himself being witness, Job 42:7; some interpret this of the purity of his life and conversation: he is further charged with saying:
and I am clean in thine eyes: speaking to God, as Jarchi observes; and indeed so he was, and every believer is, in an evangelic sense; as to the new man, which is created in righteousness and true holiness, is without sin, and cannot commit it; and as washed from all sin in the blood of Christ, and as clothed with his righteousness, in which the saints are faultless before the throne, and are unblamable and irreprovable in the sight of God: but Zophar's meaning is, that Job had asserted that he was entirely free from sin in himself, was wholly without it, and did not commit any; and had appealed to God, as knowing it to be true; and which he seems to have grounded on what he had said,
Job 10:7; through a mistake of his sense; which was not that he was free from sin entirely, but from any gross notorious sin, or from a wicked course of living, and particularly from the sin of hypocrisy, his friends suggested he was guilty of; otherwise he confesses himself a sinner, and prays for the pardon of his sins, and disclaims perfection in himself; see Job 7:20; and indeed there is no creature in itself clean in the sight of God, either angels or men; every man is naturally unclean; no good man is without sin, without the being, indwelling, and commission of it; nor will any truly gracious man say he is; he knows otherwise, and acknowledges it; he that says he is must be an ignorant man, or a vain and pharisaical man; yea, must not say the truth: some have suspected the first part of the words to be Job's, "and I am clean": and the other Zophar's explaining them; that is, "in thine eyes" z; in his own apprehension, as if he had a high and conceited opinion of himself.
y ×ק×× "doctrina aut oratio mea et sententia mente accepta", Michaelis; so Cocceius; "id quid ab aliis acceptum", Drusius. z Vid. Schultens in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My doctrine is pure - The Septuagint instead of the word âdoctrineâ here reads âdeeds,â εÌÌÏÎ³Î¿Î¹Ï ergois; the Syriac, âthou sayest I have acted justly.â But the word used here (××§× leqach) means properly âfair speechâ or âtaking arguments,â that by which one is âtakenâ or captivated, from ××§× laÌqach, âto take.â Then it means doctrine, or instruction, Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 9:9. Here it means the views which Job had expressed. Dr. Good supposes that it means âconduct,â a word which would suit the connection, but the Hebrew is not used in this sense.
And I am clean in thine eyes - In the eyes of God, or in his sight. This was a false charge. Job had never maintained that he was perfect (compare the notes at Job 9:20); he had only maintained that he was not such a sinner as his friends maintained that he was, a hypocrite, and a man eminent for guilt. His lack of absolute perfection he was ever ready to admit and mourn over.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 11:4. My doctrine is pure] ×ק×× likchi, "my assumptions." What I assume or take as right, and just, and true, are so; the precepts which I have formed, and the practice which I have founded on them, are all correct and perfect. Job had not exactly said, My doctrine and way of life are pure, and I am clean in thine eyes; but he had vindicated himself from their charges of secret sins and hypocrisy, and appealed to God for his general uprightness and sincerity: but Zophar here begs the question, in order that he may have something to say, and room to give vent to his invective.
