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Job 11

Job 11:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If thou prepare
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
h thine heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
, and stretch
paras (Hebrew #6566)
to break apart, disperse, etc.
KJV usage: break, chop in pieces, lay open, scatter, spread (abroad, forth, selves, out), stretch (forth, out).
Pronounce: paw-ras'
Origin: a primitive root
out thine hands
kaph (Hebrew #3709)
the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power
KJV usage: branch, + foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.
Pronounce: kaf
Origin: from 3721
toward him;
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1 Sam. 7:3• 3And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If ye return to Jehovah with all your heart, put away the strange gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and apply your hearts unto Jehovah, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. (1 Sam. 7:3)

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Job 5:8• 8But as for me I will seek unto *God, and unto God commit my cause; (Job 5:8)
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Job 8:5‑6• 5If thou seek earnestly unto *God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,
 6If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous; (Job 8:5‑6)
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Job 22:21‑22• 21Reconcile thyself now with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
 22Receive, I pray thee, instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart. (Job 22:21‑22)
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1 Sam. 7:3• 3And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If ye return to Jehovah with all your heart, put away the strange gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and apply your hearts unto Jehovah, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. (1 Sam. 7:3)
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2 Chron. 12:14• 14And he did evil, for he applied not his heart to seek Jehovah. (2 Chron. 12:14)
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2 Chron. 19:3• 3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee; for thou hast put away the Asherahs out of the land, and hast directed thy heart to seek God. (2 Chron. 19:3)
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Psa. 78:8• 8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with *God. (Psa. 78:8)
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Luke 12:47• 47But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared himself nor done his will, shall be beaten with many stripes; (Luke 12:47)
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Psa. 68:31• 31Great ones shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall quickly stretch out her hands unto God. (Psa. 68:31)
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Psa. 88:9• 9Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee. (Psa. 88:9)
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Psa. 143:6• 6I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, thirsteth after thee. Selah. (Psa. 143:6)
• The call to repent (vers. 13-15). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• Zophar spoils the dignity of what he had just said, by calling upon Job to repent as an evildoer having a store of ill-gotten wealth in his tents. It is this utter lack of discrimination that stirs Job to anger, and discloses the superficial nature of the friends’ theory. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,