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Job 11:13

Job 11:13
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands towards him. In this and the following verses Zophar proceeds to give some advice to Job; which, if taken, would issue in his future happiness,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

If thou prepare thine heart - Zophar now proceeds to state that if Job even yet would return to God, he might hope for acceptance. Though he had sinned, and though he was now, as he supposed, a…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 11:13-20

Zophar, as the other two, here encourages Job to hope for better times if he would but come to a better temper.

I. He gives him good counsel (Job 11:13, Job 11:14), as Eliphaz did (Job 5:8), and…