Teks -- Job 11:4 (NET)

11:4 For you have said, ‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’

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Wesley: Job 11:4 - Doctrine

Concerning God and his providence.

Wesley: Job 11:4 - Clean

I am innocent before God; I have not sinned either by my former actions, or by my present expressions. But Zophar perverts Job's words, for he did not deny that he was a sinner, but only that he was an hypocrite.

JFB: Job 11:4 - doctrine

Purposely used of Job's speeches, which sounded like lessons of doctrine (Deu 32:2; Pro 4:2).

JFB: Job 11:4 - thine

Addressed to God. Job had maintained his sincerity against his friends suspicions, not faultlessness.

Clarke: Job 11:4 - My doctrine is pure

My doctrine is pure - לקחי 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.

TSK: Job 11:4 - For thou // I am clean

For thou : Job 6:10, Job 10:7; 1Pe 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

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Poole: Job 11:4 - My doctrine // I am clean in thine eyes

My doctrine concerning God and his providence. Pure , i.e. true and certain.

I am clean in thine eyes I am innocent before God; I have not sinned, either by my former actions, or by my present expressions. Thou standest wholly upon thy justification. But Zophar aggravates and perverts Job’ s words, for he did not deny that he was a sinner in God’ s sight, Job 7:20,21 9:2,3 10:14 , but only that he was a hypocrite or ungodly man, as they made him.

Haydock: Job 11:4 - Sight

Sight. Job had just said the reverse, chap. ix. 2. (St. Chrysostom)

Gill: Job 11:4 - For thou hast said // my doctrine is pure // and I am clean in thine eyes

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.