13 “If you set your heart aright,
stretch out your hands toward him. 14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away.
Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents. 15 Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot;
Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear: 16 for you shall forget your misery.
You shall remember it as waters that are passed away. 17 Life shall be clearer than the noonday.
Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning. 18 You shall be secure, because there is hope.
Yes, you shall search, and shall take your rest in safety. 19 Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid.
Yes, many shall court your favor. 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail.
They shall have no way to flee.
Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.”
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 11:13-20
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.