| Geneva Study Bible But the eyes {k} of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost. (k) He shows that contrary things will come to them who do not repent. Wesley's Notes 11:20 Fail - Either with grief and tears for their sore calamities: or with long looking for what they shall never attain. Their hope - They shall never obtain deliverance out of their distresses, but shall perish in them. Ghost - Shall be as vain and desperate as the hope of life is in a man, when he is at the very point of death. King James Translators' Notes they shall...: Heb. flight shall perish from them the giving...: or, a puff of breath Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 20. A warning to Job, if he would not turn to God. The wicked-that is, obdurate sinners. eyes . fail-that is, in vain look for relief (De 28:65). Zophar implies Job's only hope of relief is in a change of heart. they shall not escape-literally, "every refuge shall vanish from them." giving up of the ghost-Their hope shall leave them as the breath does the body (Pr 11:7). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 11:13-20 Zophar exhorts Job to repentance, and gives him encouragement, yet mixed with hard thoughts of him. He thought that worldly prosperity was always the lot of the righteous, and that Job was to be deemed a hypocrite unless his prosperity was restored. Then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; that is, thou mayst come boldly to the throne of grace, and not with the terror and amazement expressed in ch. 9:34. If we are looked upon in the face of the Anointed, our faces that were cast down may be lifted up; though polluted, being now washed with the blood of Christ, they may be lifted up without spot. We may draw near in full assurance of faith, when we are sprinkled from an evil conscience, Heb 10:22. | 
