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Myles Coverdale Bible
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;
I wish God would answer you and tell you that you are wrong.
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,
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
and lyued therafter foure hundreth and thre yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.
Salah was thirtie yeare olde, and begat Eber,
and lyued therafter two hundreth yeare, and begat sonnes & doughters.
Nahor was nyene and twentye yeare olde, and begat Terah,
therfore will I go downe & se, whether they haue done all together, acordinge to that crye, which is come before me, or not, that I maye knowe.
and am come downe to delyuer them from the power of the Egipcians, and to carye them out of that lode, in to a good and wyde londe, euen in to a londe that floweth with mylke and hony: namely, vnto the place of the Cananites, Hethites, Amorites, Pheresites, Heuytes & Iebusites.
and be ready agaynst the thirde daye: for vpon the thirde daye shall the LORDE come downe vpon mount Sinai before all the people.
But all mount Sinai smoked, because ye LORDE came downe vpo it with fyre. And the smoke therof wente vp as the smoke of a fornace, so that the whole mount was exceadinge terrible.
Now whan the LORDE was come downe vpon mount Sinai, euen vpon the toppe of it, he called Moses vp vnto ye toppe of the mount. And Moses wente vp.
But the LORDE is in his holy temple, the LORDES seate is in heauen: He cosidereth it with his eyes, his eye lyddes beholde the children of men.
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!
