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Job 4:12

Now, a thing was secretly brought to me, it came to him in a stealthy, mysterious manner, and mine ear received a little thereof, a faint whisper or lisp, as from an oracle, which he hardly dared utter.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 4:12. _NOW A THING WAS SECRETLY BROUGHT TO ME_] To give himself the more authority, he professes to have received a vision from God, by which he was taught the secret of the Divine dispensat...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NOW A THING - To confirm his views, Eliphaz appeals to a vision of a most remarkable character which he says he had had on some former occasion on the very point under consideration. The object of the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 4-5 THE FIRST ADDRESS OF ELIPHAZ _ 1. He rebukes Job (Job 4:1)_ 2. The righteous are not cast off (Job 4:6) 3. An awe-inspiring vision (Job 4:12) 4. Experience and exhortation ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Eliphaz confirms the truth of his doctrine by telling of a vision which he had had. A revelation came upon him like a thief in the night (lit. a word stole upon me). His thoughts were raised to a high...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    A LITTLE. a whispering....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Turning to Job's murmurs against heaven, Eliphaz points to the unapproachable purity of God and the imperfection of all creatures, and warns Job against such complaints Having expressed his wonder th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Now a thing_ Or, AND A WORD. Eliphaz proceeds to another point, but he introduces it calmly, though with deepening earnestness in his tone; it is something additional, and he appends it by the simple...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Third, surely instead of despairing and murmuring under his afflictions Job should follow a very different way. I, says Eliphaz, putting himself in Job's place, would seek unto God, all whose doings a...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 454 ELIPHAZ REPROVES JOB Job 4:12. Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MINE EAR RECEIVED A LITTLE THEREOF— The word שׁמצ _shemets_ rendered _little,_ may be derived from an Arabic one, signifying _a string of pearls._ So the oracle that he here mentions was a collection...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. The Visionno mortal can question God's just acts. (Job 4:12-21) TEXT 4:12-21 12 NOW A THING WAS SECRETLY BROUGHT TO ME, And mine ear received a whisper thereof. 13 In thoughts from the visions...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _NOW A THING WAS SECRETLY BROUGHT TO ME, AND MINE EAR RECEIVED A LITTLE THEREOF._ A thing - Hebrew, a word. Eliphaz confirms his view by a divine declaration or revelation which was secretly and unex...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ (JOB 4:5) Eliphaz is the principal and probably the oldest of the three friends: cp. Job 32:6. He is also the most considerate. But the complainings of Job in Job 3 had evi...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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 4 ELIPHAZ’S FIRST SPEECH V...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Eliphaz described a strange dream. This dream frightened him. We do not know whether the dream came from God. The dream taught an important lesson to Eliphaz. But the dream seems only partly correct....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    NOW A THING. — He now proceeds to enforce and illustrate what he has said in highly poetical language, which has been versified in one of Byron’s Hebrew Melodies. SECRETLY BROUGHT TO ME. — Literally,...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ֭ אֵלַי דָּבָ֣ר יְגֻנָּ֑ב וַ תִּקַּ֥ח אָ֝זְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    VII. THE THINGS ELIPHAZ HAD SEEN Job 4:1; Job 5:1 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE ideas of sin and suffering against which the poem of Job was written come now dramatically into view. The belief of the three fr...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “SHALL MORTAL MAN BE MORE JUST THAN GOD?” Job 4:1 The first cycle of speeches is opened by Eliphaz. It must be remembered that he and the two others believed that special suffering resulted from and...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Now begins the great controversy between Job and his friends, which occupies the major portion of the Book. This controversy moves in three cycles. The first, commencing here, runs through chapter fou...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Now a thing was (h) secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. (h) A thing I did not know before was declared to me by vision, that is that whoever thinks himself just will be fo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Private. Heretics pretend such obscure visions, rather to get credit than to edify others. (St. Gregory, v. 18.) (Worthington) --- Many suppose that Eliphaz was guilty of feigning: but the greatest p...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (12) В¶ Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. (13) In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, (14) Fear came upon me, and trem...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Eliphaz Relying on Experience I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week, in Chapter 3, Job was at the height of his deep, dark, depression! 1. In fact, he stated over and over again that he wished that he had n...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW A THING WAS SECRETLY BROUGHT TO ME,.... From reason and experience, Eliphaz proceeds to a vision and revelation he had from God, showing the purity and holiness of God, and the frailty, weakness,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. Ver. 12. _Now a thing was secretly brought to me_] Heb. Was brought to me by stealth, closely and privily, so as others...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Now_ Hebrew, _and_, or _moreover, a thing_, &c. To show Job more evidently the sin and folly of impatience, and to impress what he had already advanced, or should yet further advance on that subject,...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    ELIPHAZ: COMMENDATION TWISTED INTO REBUKE (vv.1-6) The three friends of Job could only think of God's justice in reference to Job's sufferings, and had no idea of God's love. Eliphaz no doubt though...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SECRETLY: _ Heb._ by stealth...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "NOW. WORD WAS BROUGHT TO ME STEALTHILY": Eliphaz now seeks to strengthen his case by relating. dream that he has allegedly experienced. In this dream. voice whispered to him (verse 17). Here is the c...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-21 Eliphaz relates a vision. When we are communing with our own hearts, and are still, Psalms 4:4, then is a time for the Holy Spirit to commune with us. This vision put him into very great fear....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    NOW, Heb. _and_, or _moreover_, I will further convince thee by a vision which I had relating to such matters as these. That here follows a relation of a vision is apparent from the punctual descripti...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 4:12 word H1697 brought H1589 (H8792) ear H241 received H3947 (H8799) whisper H8102 a thing -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Eliphaz's theory in regard to Job's suffering. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: Those who pass rash and uncharitable censures upon their brethren, do Satan's work. We should be c...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 4:1. _Eliphaz answered,_ being the eldest, or the more eloquent. Job 4:3. _Thou hast instructed many._ The holy patriarchs were all preachers of righteousness on the sabbath days, &c, He admits t...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said._ THE FIRST COLLOQUY At this point we pass into the poem proper. It opens with three colloquies between Job and his friends. In form these colloquies clos...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 4:12 Eliphaz reports that he had a vision (vv. Job 4:12) and then describes its content (vv. Job 4:17). The vision raises t

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _COMMENCEMENT OF THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN JOB AND HIS THREE FRIENDS_ First Course of the Speeches. First Dialogue,—Eliphaz and Job FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ _Eliphaz censures Job for his impatience, an...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Job having ended his complaint, Eliphaz the Temanite, the first-named of his three friends (Job 2:11), and perhaps the eldest of them, takes the word, and endeavours to answer him. After a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Job has made his complaint, and so Eliphaz, his friend who came to comfort him, he said, If we attempt to talk to you, will you be grieved? [But really after what you've said] who can keep silent?...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 13:12; Psalms 62:11...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE PHILOSOPHY OF ELIPHAZ Job 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We are now approaching a part of the Book of Job that is most interesting. Job's three friends have at last broken their silence, and Eliphaz th...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Now — To convince Job of the sin and folly of impatience, Eliphaz relates a vision he had had, perhaps since he came to him. Which in that age and state of the church, before the holy scriptures were...

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