Job 11:11

For he ¹  knows deceitful ²  men; when he sees evil, will he not ³  consider it? ⁴ 

biblegateway Job 11:11

Surely he recognises deceitful men; and when he sees evil, does he not take note?

biblegateway Job 11:11

"For He knows false men, And He sees iniquity without investigating.

biblegateway Job 11:11

For he knows those who are false, and he takes note of all their sins.

biblegateway Job 11:11

He sees through vain pretensions, spots evil a long way off--no one pulls the wool over his eyes!

SABDAweb Job 11:11

For in his eyes men are as nothing; he sees evil and takes note of it.

bibleoremus Job 11:11

For he knows those who are worthless; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?

biblegateway Job 11:11

For He knows deceitful men; He sees wickedness also. Will He not then consider it ?

biblegateway Job 11:11

For he ¹  knows deceitful ²  men; when he sees evil, will he not ³  consider it? ⁴ 

¹ tn The pronoun is emphatic implying that Zophar indicates that God indeed knows Job’s sin even if Job does not.

² tn The expression is literally “men of emptiness” (see Ps 26:4). These are false men, for שָׁוְא (shavÿ’) can mean “vain, empty, or false, deceitful.”

³ tn E. Dhorme (Job, 162) reads the prepositional phrase “to him” rather than the negative; he translates the line as “he sees iniquity and observes it closely.”

⁴ tn Some commentators do not take this last clause as a question, but simply as a statement, namely, that when God sees evil he does not need to ponder or consider it – he knows it instantly. In that case it would be a circumstantial clause: “without considering it.” D. J. A. Clines lists quite an array of other interpretations for the line (Job [WBC], 255); for example, “and he is himself unobserved”; taking the word לֹא (lo’) as an emphatic; taking the negative as a noun, “considering them as nothing”; and others that change the verb to “they do not understand it.” But none of these are compelling; they offer no major improvement.