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Selected Verse: Job 11:5 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Job 11:5	Strong Concordance	But [0199] oh that [05414] God [0433] would speak [01696], and open [06605] his lips [08193] against thee;
	King James	But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
But oh that God would speak - Hebrew, "and truly, who will give that God should speak." It is the expression of an earnest wish that God would address him, and bring him to a proper sense of his ill desert. The meaning is, that if God should speak to him he would by no means find himself so holy as he now claimed to be.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

But oh that God would speak - Hebrew, "and truly, who will give that God should speak." It is the expression of an earnest wish that God would address him, and bring him to a proper sense of his ill desert. The meaning is, that if God should speak to him he would by no means find himself so holy as he now claimed to be.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Speak - Plead with thee according to thy desire: he would soon put thee to silence. We are commonly ready with great assurance to interest God in our quarrels. But they are not always in the right, who are most forward, to appeal to his judgment, and prejudge it against their antagonists.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Speak - Plead with thee according to thy desire: he would soon put thee to silence. We are commonly ready with great assurance to interest God in our quarrels. But they are not always in the right, who are most forward, to appeal to his judgment, and prejudge it against their antagonists.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
But O that God would speak - How little feeling, humanity, and charity is there in this prayer!

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

But O that God would speak - How little feeling, humanity, and charity is there in this prayer!

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