Teks -- Job 11:3 (NET)

11:3 Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

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Wesley: Job 11:3 - Lies

Both concerning thy own innocency, and concerning the counsels and ways of God.

Wesley: Job 11:3 - Mockest

Our friendly and faithful counsels, Job 6:14-15, Job 6:25-26.

JFB: Job 11:3 - lies

Rather, "vain boasting" (Isa 16:6; Jer 48:30). The "men" is emphatic; men of sense; in antithesis to "vain boasting."

JFB: Job 11:3 - mockest

Upbraidest God by complaints, "shall no man make thee ashamed?"

Clarke: Job 11:3 - Should thy lies make men hold their peace?

Should thy lies make men hold their peace? - This is a very severe reproof, and not justified by the occasion

Clarke: Job 11:3 - And when thou mockest

And when thou mockest - As thou despisest others, shall no man put thee to scorn? Zophar could never think that the solemn and awful manner in which Job spoke could be called bubbling, as some would translate the term לעג laag . He might consider Job’ s speech as sarcastic and severe, but he could not consider it as nonsense.

TSK: Job 11:3 - thy lies // mockest // make thee

thy lies : or, thy devices, Job 13:4, Job 15:2, Job 15:3, Job 24:25

mockest : Job 12:4, Job 13:9, Job 17:2, Job 34:7; Psa 35:16; Jer 15:17; Jud 1:18

make thee : Psa 83:16; 2Th 3:14; Tit 2:8

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Poole: Job 11:3 - Thy lies // When thou mockest

Thy lies i.e. thy false opinions and assertions, both concerning thyself and thy own innocency, and concerning the counsels and ways of God, make men hold their peace; as if thy arguments were unanswerable.

When thou mockest both God, Job 10:3 , and us, and our friendly and faithful counsels, Job 6:14,15,25,26 ,

shall no man make thee ashamed by discovering thy errors and follies?

Haydock: Job 11:3 - Men // Mocked

Men. Hebrew, "shall thy lies make men keep silence?" Septuagint, "Blessed be the short-lived son of a woman. Speak not much, for there is no one to give sentence against thee." (Haydock) ---

Mocked, by not acquiescing to their solid arguments, (Menochius) and speaking with much animation. (Pineda)

Gill: Job 11:3 - Should thy lies make men hold their peace // and, when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed

Should thy lies make men hold their peace?.... By which he means, either lies in common, untruths wilfully told, which are sins of a scandalous nature, which good men will not dare to commit knowingly; and to give a man, especially such a man, the lie, is very indecent; and to charge a man falsely with it is very injurious: or else doctrinal ones, errors in judgment, falsehoods concerning God and things divine; which not only are not of the truth, for no lie is of the truth, but are against it; and indeed where the case is notorious in either sense, men should not be silent, or be as men deaf and dumb, as the word ^u signifies, as if they did not hear the lies told them, or were unconcerned about them, or connived at them: David would not suffer a liar to be near him, nor dwell in his house, Psa 101:7; a common liar ought to be reproved and rejected; and doctrinal liars and lies should be opposed and resisted; truth should be contended for, and nothing be done against it, but everything for it: it is criminal to be silent at either sort of lies; nor should the bold and blustering manner in which they are told frighten men from a detection of them, which perhaps is what may be hinted at here ^w; some render the words ^x, "should thine iniquity frighten men?" they are not so strong and nervous as to appear unanswerable, and deter men from undertaking a reply unto them:

and, when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? here Job is represented as a mocker of God, which is inferred from Job 10:3; and at his friends, and the arguments they used, and the advice they gave, which is concluded from his words in Job 6:25; and as one hardened, who was not, and could not be made ashamed of what he had said against either, by anything that had been offered for his reproof and conviction: to make a mock of God, or a jest of divine things, or scoff at good men, is very bad; indeed it is the character of the worst of men; and such should be made ashamed, if possible, by exposing their sin and folly; and if not here, they will be covered with shame hereafter, when they shall appear before God, the Judge of all, who will not be mocked, and shall see the saints at the right hand of Christ, whom they have jeered and scoffed at: but this was not Job's true character; he was no mocker of God nor of good men; in this he was wronged and injured, and had nothing of this sort to be made ashamed of.