13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
13 "Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,
13 "If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.
13 "Still, if you set your heart on God and reach out to him,
13 "If you would prepare your heart, And stretch out your hands toward Him;
13 "If only you would prepare your heart and lift up your hands to him in prayer!
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 11:13
Commentary on Job 11:13-20
(Read Job 11:13-20)
Zophar exhorts Job to repentance, and gives him encouragement, yet mixed with hard thoughts of him. He thought that worldly prosperity was always the lot of the righteous, and that Job was to be deemed a hypocrite unless his prosperity was restored. Then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; that is, thou mayst come boldly to the throne of grace, and not with the terror and amazement expressed in Hebrews 10:22.