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Verse Job 15:22. _THAT HE SHALL RETURN OUT OF DARKNESS_] If he take
but a few steps in the dark, he expects the _dagger_ of the assassin.
This appears to be the only meaning of the place. Some think...
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HE BELIEVETH NOT THAT HE SHALL RETURN OUT OF DARKNESS - Darkness is
used in the Bible, as elsewhere, to denote calamity; and the meaning
here is, that the wicked man has not confidence (יאמין לא _lo'_...
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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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WAITED FOR OF THE SWORD. destined to the power of the sword....
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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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_return out of darkness_ "Darkness" is calamity, and the words mean
that the wicked man anticipates a calamity which shall be final, and
from which, when it befals him, there shall be no escape.
_he i...
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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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HE IS WAITED FOR— _He is marked out for, destined to._ Heath....
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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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_HE BELIEVETH NOT THAT HE SHALL RETURN OUT OF DARKNESS, AND HE IS
WAITED FOR OF THE SWORD._
Darkness - namely, danger or calamity. Glancing at Job, who despaired
of restoration: in contrast to good m...
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He loses hope of deliverance from misfortune.
23A. He imagines he is always coming to poverty....
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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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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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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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לֹא ־יַאֲמִ֣ין שׁ֭וּב מִנִּי
־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ _וְ_†_צָפ֖וּי_†...
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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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He believeth not that he shall return out of (n) darkness, and he is
waited for of the sword.
(n) Out of that misery to which he once fell....
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CHAPTER XV....
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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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HE BELIEVETH NOT THAT HE SHALL RETURN OUT OF DARKNESS,.... When he
lies down at night he despairs of ever seeing the light of the
morning, through fear of an enemy, a robber, a murderer, or of one
dis...
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He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is
waited for of the sword.
Ver. 22. _He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness_] He
despondeth and despaireth of a better co...
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_A dreadful sound is in his ears_ Even when he feels no evil, he is
tormented with perpetual fears and expectations of it, from a
consciousness of his own guilt, and a sense of God's all-seeing eye
an...
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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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"The meaning is that the sinner is tormented by his guilty conscience;
he is always fearing that he may not awake from his sleep, or he is
always dreading misfortune" _(Zuck p. 72)._ In addition, he i...
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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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i.e. When he falls into trouble, he despairs of God's mercy, and of
deliverance, by reason of his guilty conscience; which he speaks with
particular reflection upon Job, who would receive no comfort n...
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Job 15:22 believe H539 (H8686) return H7725 (H8800) darkness H2822
sword H2719 waiting H6822 (H8803)
He be
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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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2 Kings 6:33; Isaiah 8:21; Isaiah 8:22; Job 20:24; Job 20:25;...
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Believeth not — When he falls into trouble, he despairs of
deliverance, by reason of his guilty conscience. Waited for —
Besides the calamity which is upon him, he is in constant expectation
of greate...