Job - 15:13



13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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Explanation and meaning of Job 15:13.

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That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?
Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth ?
For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:
So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?
Why does your spirit stir against God, so as to utter such speeches from your mouth?

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

That thou turnest thy spirit - That your mind is turned against God instead of acquiescing in his dealings. The views of Job he traces to pride and to overweening self-confidence, and perhaps not improperly.

That thou turnest thy spirit against God - The ideas here seem to be taken from an archer, who turns his eye and his spirit - his desire - against the object which he wishes to hit; and then lets loose his arrow that it may attain the mark.

That thou turnest thy spirit against God,.... Not against men, his friends only, but against God himself, being filled with wrath and indignation at him; showing the enmity of his heart unto him, and committing hostilities upon him, stretching out his hand, and strengthening himself against him, running upon him, on the thick bosses of his buckler, as after expressed:
and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? as in Job 9:22.

That is, frettest against God and lettest fall rash words.

Against God - Eliphaz here does in effect give the cause on Satan's side, and affirms that Job had done as he said he would, Curse God to his face.

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