For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
Job 11:4 contains the accusation of Zophar against Job that Job had asserted the purity of his teaching and his own cleanness in God's sight. The wording preserves what Zophar charged Job with saying rather than proving that Job had actually made such a claim. In common with the utterances of Job's friends generally, it expresses true principles that were wrongly applied to the explanation of Job's suffering. Because it belongs to those declarations of the friends concerning God and Job, it cannot be accepted on its own authority but must be measured by inspired Scripture, for they did not speak what was true about either.
Job 11:4 contains the accusation of Zophar against Job that Job had asserted the purity of his teaching and his own cleanness in God's sight. The wording preserves what Zophar charged Job with saying rather than proving that Job had actually made such a claim. In common with the utterances of Job's friends generally, it expresses true principles that were wrongly applied to the explanation of Job's suffering. Because it belongs to those declarations of the friends concerning God and Job, it cannot be accepted on its own authority but must be measured by inspired Scripture, for they did not speak what was true about either.