Job 5:1
"CALL NOW, IS THERE ANYONE WHO WILL ANSWER YOU? AND TO WHICH OF THE HOLY ONES WILL YOU TURN?" Eliphaz contends that there is no one who can defend or protect Job, certainly not the holy ones or angels (Job 4:18).... [ Continue Reading ]
"CALL NOW, IS THERE ANYONE WHO WILL ANSWER YOU? AND TO WHICH OF THE HOLY ONES WILL YOU TURN?" Eliphaz contends that there is no one who can defend or protect Job, certainly not the holy ones or angels (Job 4:18).... [ Continue Reading ]
"FOR ANGER SLAYS THE FOOLISH MAN, AND JEALOUSY KILLS THE SIMPLE": Eliphaz may have been interpreting Job's lament in chapter three as being the anger of. foolish man and as. simple man's jealousy.... [ Continue Reading ]
"I HAVE SEEN THE FOOLISH TAKING ROOT, AND. CURSED HIS ABODE IMMEDIATELY": He now speaks of. fool he had known who had prospered ("taken root") for. while, and yet he was suddenly cursed. "The unrighteous often strike deep into the earth their strange roots. Prosperity is thus effectively presented... [ Continue Reading ]
"HIS SONS ARE FAR FROM SAFETY": Here he is pouring salt into Job's open wounds by basically blaming Job for the death of his children. The problem with his argument is the misconception that because. fool meets disaster, all that meet disaster must be fools. "Sympathy will not be. major preoccupatio... [ Continue Reading ]
"FOR AFFLICTION DOES NOT COME FROM THE DUST, NOR DOES TROUBLE SPROUT FROM THE GROUND": The source of the troubles does not come from the ground but from within the man.... [ Continue Reading ]
"FOR MAN IS BORN FOR TROUBLE, AS SPARKS FLY UPWARDS": "Man is born for trouble as certainly as flames from an open fire fly upwards. Eliphaz's view that man by his sin brings trouble on himself, though. partial truth, overlooks Jesus' statement that. falling tower may kill people who were no more si... [ Continue Reading ]
"BUT AS FOR ME,. WOULD SEEK GOD, AND. WOULD PLACE MY CAUSE BEFORE GOD": From the context this does not appear to be an encouragement to seek God for comfort, but rather to repent. "If. were in your shoes. would..... [ Continue Reading ]
Job is encouraged to seek God because God is powerful and majestic, benevolent, and encourages and helps the downcast, frustrates the shrewd, and delivers the poor and helpless. This advice is not wrong in itself, for God indeed does all these things, the problem is assuming that Job has sinned deli... [ Continue Reading ]
"HE CAPTURES THE WISE BY THEIR OWN SHREWDNESS": "The image of total confusion which ensnares the crafty (Deut. Job 28:29; Isaiah 19:14; Job 59:10)" _(Strauss p. 48)._ This is the only verse quoted directly from the book of Job in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 3:19). The person who seeks success o... [ Continue Reading ]
"BEHOLD, HOW HAPPY IS THE MAN WHOM GOD REPROVES, SO DO NOT DESPISE THE DISCIPLINE OF THE ALMIGHTY": What he says is often true, God does discipline His people (Proverbs 3:11-12; Hebrews 12:5ff), the problem is that this man believes that all suffering is always divine punishment.... [ Continue Reading ]
The idea in this section is that if Job will confess and repent, God will bless him with healing, deliverance from famine, war, slander, violence, wild beasts, good crops, security, numerous descendants, health, and long life. JOB 5:23 "IN LEAGUE WITH THE STONES OF THE FIELD": That is, they will not... [ Continue Reading ]
"BEHOLD THIS; WE HAVE INVESTIGATED IT, AND SO IT IS. HEAR IT, AND KNOW FOR YOURSELF": He smugly ends his first speech. "He seemed to have said, 'I have the truth, so you might as well face up to it, and act accordingly'" _(Zuck p. 35). _... [ Continue Reading ]