Job 11:19
in Job 11You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; Yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
KJV
Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
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This verse in Job 11
Commentary
7 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Many shall make suit unto thee - Many shall come in a suppliant manner to ask counsel and advice. The meaning is, that he would be a man of distinction, to whom many would look for counsel. This was evidently an honor highly valued in the East, and one on which Job had formerly pridcd himself; see Job 29:7-13.
This site's exposition
you will forget your misery
on Job 11:16-19
Zophar's restoration, "you will forget your misery" and a life "brighter than noonday", repeats each friend's offer: a bright future in exchange for repentance. It rests on sins the friends assume, and the book's last chapter uses the same restoration language of Job with no such condition.
This site's exposition
many will court your favor
Barnes reads the promise as honour restored, with many men coming to court Job's favor and seek his counsel. Job remembers those days at Job 29:21-25. Matthew Henry notes the turn: the man now scorned would lie down without fear and be sought again.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
And so he then says, "You will rest and there will be no one to frighten you." In another way, the dead live in the memories of men because of the good deeds which they did while they were alive for which their life would …
Also thou shalt lie down, and there shall be none to make thee afraid. Whosoever seeks present glory doubtless dreads contempt. He, who is ever agape after gain, is ever surely in fear of loss. For that object, the receiving of which is medicine to him, the loss thereof is his wounding, and as he is rivetted under fetters to things mutable and destined to perish, so he lies grovelling beneath, far apart from the stronghold of security.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Also thou shall lie down, and none shall make thee afraid,....
Nothing needs make those afraid who return to God as their rest and take him for their habitation. (3.) That, though now he was slighted, yet he should be courted: " Many shall make suit to thee, and think it their interest to secure thy friendship." Suit is made to those that are eminently wise or reputed to be so, that are very rich or in power.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְֽ֭רָבַצְתָּ | veravatzta | and you will lie down | H7257 → | |
| וְאֵ֣ין | veein | and there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| מַחֲרִ֑יד | macharid | [will be one who] disturbs | H2729 → | |
| וְחִלּ֖וּ | vechilu | and they will entreat | H2470 → | |
| פָנֶ֣יךָ | faneikha | face your | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| רַבִּֽים׃ | rabim | many [people] | H7227 → | 454 times |
וְֽ֭רָבַצְתָּand you will lie down
veravatztaH7257 →
וְאֵ֣יןand there not
veeinH369 →789 times
מַחֲרִ֑יד[will be one who] disturbs
macharidH2729 →
וְחִלּ֖וּand they will entreat
vechiluH2470 →
פָנֶ֣יךָface your
faneikhaH6440 →2123 times
רַבִּֽים׃many [people]
rabimH7227 →454 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 60:14The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy…
it leads to
- Isaiah 49:23
Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow to you facedown and lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD;…
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Revelation 3:9
Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead. I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know…
- Isaiah 45:14
This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge…
- Hebrews 12:22
Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
- Isaiah 49:23
Through
Leviticus 26:6And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.
it leads to
- Isaiah 35:9
No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
- Zephaniah 3:13
The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make…
- Psalms 147:14
He makes peace at your borders; He fills you with the finest wheat.
- Isaiah 35:9
Through
Psalms 45:12The Daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; men of wealth will seek your favor.
it leads to
- Psalms 22:29
All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him— even those unable to preserve their lives.
- Psalms 22:29
About Job
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book X; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.