Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 11:13 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 13. 13If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
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Role in This Section
Job 11:13 opens the thought unit with the words “If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him.” Zophar states “If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him” as one poetic claim in Zophar Offers Restoration if Job Removes Sin.
Read It With
- Job 11:13–11:20
Read Job 11:13 with 11:13–11:20. Read alone, “If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Zophar urges Job to prepare his heart and put wrongdoing away, promising security, brightness, rest, influence, and hope while threatening the wicked.
Why It Needs Context
Job 11:13 depends on 11:13–11:20; isolating “If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Zophar and “Zophar Offers Restoration if Job Removes Sin.”
Read Job 11:13–20 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 11:13–11:20 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Zophar Offers Restoration if Job Removes Sin.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 13. 13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
Verse 14. 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Verse 15. 15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:
Verse 16. 16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
Verse 17. 17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
Verse 18. 18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
Verse 19. 19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
Verse 20. 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 11:13–11:20 — Zophar Offers Restoration if Job Removes SinSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 11:13–11:20, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 11:13–11:20
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