Job 11:13
“Job, repent [IDM]; reach out your hands to seek God’s help.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 9:29Moses/I replied, “As soon as I go out of this city, I will lift up my hands and pray to Yahweh. Then the thunder will cease, and no more hail will fall. This will happen in order that you will know that Yahweh, not your gods, controls everything that happens on the earth.
2 Chronicles 12:14Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah. She was from the Ammon people-group. Rehoboam did evil things because he did not try to find out what Yahweh wanted him to do.
Job 5:8“If I were suffering like you are, I would ask God for help and tell him ◄what I am complaining about/about my suffering►.
Job 22:21“So, Job, be reconciled to God and make peace with him; if you do that, good things will happen to you.
Psalms 78:8They would not be like their ancestors, who were very stubborn and kept rebelling against God; they did not continue firmly trusting in God, and they did not worship only him.
Psalms 143:6I lift up my hands/arms to you while I pray; I [SYN] need you, like very dry ground needs rain [SIM]. (Think about that!)
Matthew Henry on Job 11:8-13
7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? 8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? 9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. 10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? 11 For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? 12 For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt. Zophar here speaks very good… Read the whole commentary →