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Verse Job 15:20. _THE WICKED MAN TRAVAILETH WITH PAIN_] This is a
most forcible truth: a life of sin is a life of misery; and he that
_WILL sin MUST suffer_. One of the _Targums_ gives it a strange t...
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TRAVAILETH WITH PAIN - That is, his sorrows are like the pains of
parturition. Eliphaz means to say that he is a constant sufferer.
ALL HIS DAYS - It seems difficult to see how they could have ever
fo...
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THE SECOND SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES
CHAPTER 15 Eliphaz's Second Address
_ 1. Tells Job that he is self-condemned (Job 15:1)_
2. Charges him with pride (Job 15:7)
3. The wicked and their lot (Job 15...
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WICKED MAN. lawless one. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44. From Job 15:20 to
Job 15:35 Eliphaz repeats what he had heard from tradition.
TRAVAILETH. "he travaileth"....
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Eliphaz instructs Job regarding the troubled conscience And the
Disastrous Fate of the Wicked Man
Having sufficiently rebuked Job's presumption and irreverence Eliphaz
proceeds to take up his princip...
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The sense is,
All the days of the wicked man he is in pain,
And the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor,
i. e., constantly and throughout his whole life, as long as it
endures, the w...
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This doctrine itself. The passage gives a picture of the conscience of
the wicked man filled with presentiments of evil, in opposition to
such statements as that of Job, ch. Job 12:6, and to his whole...
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_JOB 15:20_, &C. _THE WICKED MAN TRAVAILETH_— This is a most
beautiful image of the perpetual anxiety in which a tyrant lives: when
he goes to sleep, he is afraid that he shall be murdered before
morn...
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2. The destiny of the ungodly shows the retributive justice of God.
(Job 15:17-35)
TEXT 15:17-35
17 I WILL SHOW THEE, HEAR THOU ME;
And that which I have seen I will declare
18 (Which wise men hav...
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THE SECOND SERIES OF SPEECHES (JOB 15-21)
The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his
sturdy maintenance of his innocence, and the fearlessness with which
in his anguish he has...
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AND THE NUMBER, etc.] RV 'even the number of years that are laid up
for the oppressor.'...
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Eliphaz repeated the friends’ main idea. Wicked men always suffer a
terrible fate. They will have an awful life and a terrible death....
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 15
ELIPHAZ’S SECOND SPEECH...
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TRAVAILETH WITH PAIN. — This and the following verses contain the
result of this experience. Here, again, we have a highly-coloured and
poetical description of the oppressor, true to the character of...
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כָּל ־יְמֵ֣י רָ֭שָׁע ה֣וּא
מִתְחֹולֵ֑ל וּ מִס
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XIII.
THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE
Job 15:1
ELIPHAZ SPEAKS
THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology
and the facts of human life. No positive reconciliation is effected a...
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“THE HEAVENS ARE NOT CLEAN”
Job 15:1
The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He
begins by _rebuking_ Job, Job 15:1. He complains that the words of Job
proved him to be unwise, J...
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Here the second cycle of argument begins, and again Eliphaz is the
first speaker. It is at once evident that Job's answers had wounded
him.
He first criticized Job's manner, charging him with using me...
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number (m)
of years is hidden to the oppressor.
(m) The cruel man is always in danger of death, and is never quiet in
conscience....
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_Proud; uncertain. Hebrew, "in pain." (Haydock) --- Septuagint,
"numbered," or few, Genesis xxxiv. 30. These are the maxims which
Eliphaz had received in a vision, or from the ancients, ver. 17. The
d...
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(17) В¶ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will
declare; (18) Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have
not hid it: (19) Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no st...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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THE WICKED MAN TRAVAILETH WITH PAIN ALL [HIS] DAYS,.... Either to
commit iniquity, which he is at great pains to do, and even to
weariness; and, agreeably to the metaphor used, he conceives it in his...
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of
years is hidden to the oppressor.
Ver. 20. _The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days_] He
tormenteth himself, or thrustet...
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_The wicked man travaileth with pain_ That is, lives a life of care,
and fear, and grief, by reason of God's wrath, the torments of his own
mind, and his outward calamities. _The number of_ his _years...
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, writhing, twisting,
and trembling in torments of one form or other, AND THE NUMBER OF
YEARS IS HIDDEN TO THE OPPRESSOR, rather, a definite number of y...
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ELIPHAZ ACCUSES JOB OF IMPIETY...
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ELIPHAZ CLAIMS JOB CONDEMNS HIMSELF
(vv.1-6)
This response of Eliphaz lacks the measure of self-restraint he had
shown in his first address. He had first at least spoken with a
measure of considerat...
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This verse begins another section on the fate of the wicked. Eliphaz
argues that the wicked spend all their days writhing or tossing about
in pain and anxiety. The term "ruthless" means "terror-striki...
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17-35 Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable:
whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and
therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospe...
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TRAVAILETH WITH PAIN, i.e. lives a life of care, and fear, and grief,
by reason of God's wrath, and the torments of his own mind, and his
manifold and dreadful outward calamities. THE NUMBER OF HIS YE...
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Job 15:20 wicked H7563 writhes H2342 (H8711) days H3117 number H4557
years H8141 hidden H6845 (H8738
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CONTENTS: Eliphaz's theory about Job, charging him with foolishly
justifying himself.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz.
CONCLUSION: Those speeches which do no good, being of no service
either to God, o...
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Job 15:2. _Fill his belly with the east wind;_ a hot dry wind, the
least favourable to vegetation. This is an angry figure of speech,
equivalent to a declaration that Job's defence was a mere storm of...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:1 Second Cycle. The arguments of each participant
harden in the second round of speeches. Once again the three friends
say that Job is suffering because of his sin. Job refuses to a...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:20 Eliphaz describes the WICKED MAN. He hopes
that Job will see himself in the descriptions and will repent.
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_SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ_
Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably
irritated at his little success with Job, who rejected his friend’s
counse...
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EXPOSITION
The second colloquy between Job and his friends is, like the first
(ch. 3-14.), one in which all of them take part, and the same order of
speakers is maintained. Job answers each speaker in...
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Now at this point, Eliphaz, who was the first friend of Job's to
speak, speaks for the second time. And he claims that he is older than
Job, more experienced than Job, and thus Job ought to listen to...
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Ecclesiastes 9:3; James 5:1; Luke 12:19; Psalms 90:12; Psalms 90:3;...
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Pain — Lives a life of care, and fear, and grief, by reason of God's
wrath, the torments of his own mind, and his outward calamities.
Hidden — He knows not how short the time of his life is, and
there...