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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 4:18

Servants — They are called his servants by way of eminency, that general name being here appropriated to the chief of the kind, to intimate that sovereign dominion which the great God hath over the angels, and much more over men. With folly — Without all doubt, this refers to those angels who foolishly and wickedly fell from God.

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See also Job 4:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 4:18. _BEHOLD, HE PUT NO TRUST IN HIS SERVANTS_] This verse is generally understood to refer to the fall of angels; for there were some of those heavenly beings _who kept not their first_ _...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BEHOLD, HE PUT NO TRUST IN HIS SERVANTS - These are evidently the words of the oracle that appeared to Eliphaz; see Schultens, in loc. The word servants here refers to angels; and the idea is, that Go...

  • 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

    This is what the vision said. Translate as _mg.:_ Shall mortal man be just before God, shall a man be pure before his maker? Even the angels are fallible, how much more man, who inhabits a house of cl...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PUT NO TRUST. putteth no faith in. Hebrew. _'aman._ App-69. Compare Job 15:15; Job 15:31. SERVANTS. messengers (Psalms 104:4). CHARGED. will charge....

  • 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...

  • 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

    _he put no trust_ Better, HE PUTTETH. _he charged with folly_ Rather, HE CHARGETH WITH ERROR. The "servants" of God are here His heavenly ministers, as the parallel, "angels", indicates. The word "fo...

  • 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

    HIS ANGELS HE CHARGED WITH FOLLY— Schultens observes, that the Hebrew word rendered _charged,_ signifies _to discern_ or _take notice of;_ see Isaiah 41:20.; and that the word rendered _folly,_ signif...

  • 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

    _BEHOLD, HE PUT NO TRUST IN HIS SERVANTS; AND HIS ANGELS HE CHARGED WITH FOLLY:_ Folly. Imperfection (Job 2:10) is to be attributed to the angels, in comparison with Him. The holiness of some of them...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HE PUT NO TRUST] because of their imperfections. SERVANTS] attendant angels....

  • 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

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Eliphaz heard the words in verses 18-21. The spirit in his dream spoke these words. But this verse is wrong. God does trust his servants. God trusted Job in Job 1:8. And God was proud that Job still s...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, HE PUT NO TRUST IN HIS SERVANTS. — The statement is a general one; it does not refer to any one act in the past. We should read _putteth_ and _chargeth._ Eliphaz repeats himself in Job 15:15....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵ֣ן בַּ֭ עֲבָדָיו לֹ֣א יַאֲמִ֑ין וּ֝ בְ

  • 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

    Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his (m) angels he charged with folly: (m) If God finds imperfection in his angels when they are not maintained by his power, how much more shall he lay fo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Angels, who fell, as the fathers explain it. (Estius) (Tirinus) --- Hebrew, "behold, he put no trust in his servants, and his angels he charged with folly," chap. xv. 15., and xxv. 5., and 2 Peter ii...

  • 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

    BEHOLD, HE PUT NO TRUST IN HIS SERVANTS,.... Some think the divine oracle or revelation ends in Job 4:17, and that here Eliphaz makes some use and improvement of it, and addresses Job, and argues with...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: Ver. 18. _Lo, he put no trust in his servants, &c._] Those menial, domestic servants of his, the holy angels that wait u...

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

    _Behold_, &c. For it deserves thy serious consideration. These and the following words seem to be the words of Eliphaz, explaining the former vision, and applying it to Job's case, and enforcing it by...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, He put no trust in His servants, the ministering angels; AND HIS ANGELS HE CHARGED WITH FOLLY, to the very spirits of light He imputes error, they cannot compare with Him in holiness and purit...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Job having thus given way to his impatience, his friends thought it their duty to correct him. But instead of showing him in what respect his position was wrong, they proceed according to the assumpti...

  • 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)

    AND HIS ANGELS HE CHARGED: Or, nor in his Angels, in whom he put light...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "HE PUTS NOT TRUST EVEN IN HIS SERVANTS; AND AGAINST HIS ANGELS HE CHARGES ERROR" This indicates that Job and his friends understood the Biblical truth that some angels had sinned in the past (2 Pete...

  • 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

    BEHOLD; this deserves thy serious consideration. These and the following words seem to be the words of Eliphaz, explaining the former vision, and applying it to Job's case, and enforcing it by further...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 4:18 trust H539 (H8686) servants H5650 charges H7760 (H8799) angels H4397 error H8417 he put -...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _ FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...

  • 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

    _And His angels He charged with folly._ FOLLY IN ANGELS “His angels He charged with folly.” Revelation conveys to us the highly interesting information that there is between the great Spirit and man,...

  • 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

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  • 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

    2 Peter 2:4; Isaiah 6:2; Isaiah 6:3; Job 15:15; Job 15:16;...

  • 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...

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