111 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered, 2 “Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered?
Should a man full of talk be justified? 3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace?
When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed? 4 For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure.
I am clean in your eyes.’ 5 But oh that God would speak,
and open his lips against you, 6 that he would show you the secrets of wisdom!
For true wisdom has two sides.
Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 11:1-6
Commentary on Job 11:1-6
(Read Job 11:1-6)
Zophar attacked Job with great vehemence. He represented him as a man that loved to hear himself speak, though he could say nothing to the purpose, and as a man that maintained falsehoods. He desired God would show Job that less punishment was exacted than he deserved. We are ready, with much assurance, to call God to act in our quarrels, and to think that if he would but speak, he would take our part. We ought to leave all disputes to the judgment of God, which we are sure is according to truth; but those are not always right who are most forward to appeal to the Divine judgment.