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and there is an unbridgeable gulf between a man and God. And Job, you are
acting like a donkey now. If you could only see how much God knows, you
would not say you are innocent. You would not say that there is no sin in
your heart. And then in verses 7-12 he expounds the wisdom of God. Now,
remember, what these guys are saying is not wrong. It is true, but it is not
the truth. It is true, but it does not answer his problem. You read verses 7-
12 in this chapter. Tremendous verses!
“Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of
the Almighty? They are high as the heavens, what can you do? Deeper
than Sheol, what can you know? Its measure is longer than the earth
and broader than the sea. If He passes by or shuts up, or calls an
assembly, who can restrain Him?”
Marvelous verses on the wisdom of God. And then in verses 13-20, Zophar
just says, Job, Job, Job, repent and be blessed. Give God the benefit of the
doubt. Oh, they are precious verses:

“If you would direct your heart right and spread out your hand to Him, if
iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness dwell in
your tents; Then, indeed, you could lift up your face without moral defect,
and you would be steadfast and not fear. For you would forget your trouble.”
And on and on. Tremendous section! Filled with wonderful truth! But it does
not touch Job’s problem. So the first section, Zophar says, “I wish God
would come to you”. And then he says, “I wish you could see the wisdom of
God and how He sees in your heart”. And then he says, “Job, repent, turn
from your sin”.
Zophar took a very harsh approach. Do not forget, now, Job is a Godly man
and he is a suffering man, and what they say not only doesn’t meet his
needs, it actually adds to his suffering. It cuts him deeply; it wounds him.
Zophar really shows his youth here. He is proud, he is arrogant, and he is
dogmatically disrespectful. Look at verses 1 and 2,
“Then Zophar the Naamathite answered, shall a multitude of words go
unanswered, and a talkative man be acquitted?”
Now, this talkative man, literally, is “a man of lips”. In other words, he says
what you say, Job, is just with your lips not with your heart.
And then in verse 3,
“Shall your boasts silence men?”
The Hebrew for boasts is lies. Job, you are nothing but a liar.

“And shall you scoff and none rebuke?”

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