translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JOB

label: NET study note

text: Job had expressed his eagerness to challenge God; Zophar here wishes that God would take up that challenge.


text: This is the posture of prayer (see Isa 1:15 ). The expression means “spread out your palms,” probably meaning that the one praying would fall to his knees, put his forehead to the ground, and spread out his hands in front of him on the ground.


text: It is interesting to note in the book that the resolution of Job’s trouble did not come in the way that Zophar prescribed it.