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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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A LITTLE. a whispering....
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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,...
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וְ֭ אֵלַי דָּבָ֣ר יְגֻנָּ֑ב וַ
תִּקַּ֥ח אָ֝זְ
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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(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...
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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...
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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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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,...
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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...
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_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,...
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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 utte...
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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...
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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...
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SECRETLY:
_ Heb._ by stealth...
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"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...
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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....
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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...
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Job 4:12 word H1697 brought H1589 (H8792) ear H241 received H3947
(H8799) whisper H8102
a thing -...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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_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...
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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...
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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?...
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1 Corinthians 13:12; Psalms 62:11...
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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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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...