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 deliberately and needs to repent.
Verse Job 5:9. _WHICH DOETH GREAT THINGS_] No work, however complicated, is too deep for his counsel to plan; none, however stupendous, is too great for his power to execute. He who is upright is alwa...
WHICH DOETH GREAT THINGS - The object of this is, to show why Job should commit his cause to God. The reason suggested is, that he had showed himself qualified to govern the world by the great and won...
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 ...
Eliphaz advises Job to accept the Divine discipline so that God may again show Himself gracious. As for me, instead of being impatient like a fool, I would seek unto God (_cf._ Job 1:21; Job 2:10). Jo...
MARVELLOUS. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and marvellous"....
This description of God as great in power and wonderful in working supports the implied exhortation in Job 5:8. Eliphaz in Job's place would commit his cause, or exactly as we say colloquially, his _c...
Eliphaz, in Job's place, would seek unto God, all whose ways are marked by one purpose, to do good, and whose chastisements, therefore, but open the way to a richer blessing The passage attaches itse...
I WOULD SEEK UNTO GOD, &C.— i.e. (For Eliphaz had precluded him from all attempts to justify himself in the foregoing part of his advice.) "I would apply to God with a full and free confession of thos...
4. My advicea) Return to God who rewards the righteous. (Job 5:8-16) TEXT 5:8-16 8 BUT AS FOR ME, I WOULD SEEK UNTO GOD, And unto God would I commit my cause; 9 Who doeth great things and unsearch...
_WHICH DOETH GREAT THINGS AND UNSEARCHABLE; MARVELLOUS THINGS WITHOUT NUMBER:_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ (CONCLUDED) 1-5. Eliphaz warns Job that to show a resentful temper at God's dispensations is folly, and that fools never prosper....
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 5 ELIPHAZ CONTINUES HIS FIR...
This is true. These words are wonderful words. Verse 11 is like James 4:10 and Luke 1:46-55....
עֹשֶׂ֣ה גְ֭דֹלֹות וְ אֵ֣ין חֵ֑קֶר נִ֝פְלָאֹ֗ות...
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...
THE BENEFITS OF CHASTISEMENT Job 5:1 In this chapter Eliphaz closes his first speech. He had already suggested that Job's sufferings were the result of some secret sin. It could not be otherwise acco...
Proceeding, Eliphaz asked Job to whom he would appeal, to which of the holy ones, that is, as against the truth which he had declared, or in defense of himself. In the light of evident guilt, all vexa...
Which (l) doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: (l) He counsels Job to humble himself to God to whom all creatures are subject and whose works declare that man is ine...
(9) Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: (10) Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: (11) To set up on high those that be low; that...
_THINGS UNSEARCHABLE_ ‘I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number.’ Job 5:8 I. HOW MANY ‘UNSEARCHABLE T...
Eliphaz Relying on Experience I. INTRODUCTION F. Job 5:1-3 (NKJV) "Call out now; Is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn? 2 For wrath kills a foolish man, A...
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...
WHICH DOETH GREAT THINGS,.... The things of creation are great things, the making of the heavens and the earth, and all therein, by the word of the Almighty, out of nothing, and which is a display of...
_Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:_ Ver. 9. _Which doth great things and unsearchable_] The better to persuade Job to take his counsel, he entereth into a l...
_Which doth great things and unsearchable_ Here Eliphaz enters upon a discourse of the infinite perfection of God's nature and works; which he does as an argument to enforce the exhortation to _seek a...
ANSWERING A POSSIBLE OBJECTION ON JOB'S PART...
which doeth great things and unsearchable, whose ways are beyond finding out and therefore beyond question on the part of men; MARVELOUS THINGS WITHOUT NUMBER, all of which are beyond the grasp of the...
FURTHER OBSERVATIONS BY ELIPHAZ (vv.1-27) Eliphaz suggests to Job that he call out to creatures for help, even to holy ones - holy men or angels, - and see if anyone will answer him (v.1). He is imp...
AND UNSEARCHABLE: _ Heb._ and there is no search WITHOUT NUMBER: _ Heb._ till there be no number...
6-16 Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and...
Here Eliphaz enters upon a discourse of the infinite perfection and greatness of God's nature and works; which he doth partly as an argument to enforce the exhortation to _seek and commit his cause to...
Job 5:9 does H6213 (H8802) things H1419 unsearchable H369 H2714 things H6381 (H8737) number H4557 doeth -...
Job 5:8 The truth which was here held up before Job is an inspiring one. We have to do with a God who does unsearchably marvellous things, not a few, but many, things, literally numberless. I. Why th...
CONTENTS: Eliphaz's discourse continued. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: Even Satan may be God's servant to make better saints of us, the blow at the outward man proving the greatest bles...
Job 5:1. _To which of the saints wilt thou turn?_ Men in anguish look every way for help, but how can either angel or departed spirit of the just help us, without a special command from heaven. Men sh...
_I would seek unto God._ MARVELS AND PRAYER Nothing could be better than the counsel proffered in the text, nothing more certain than the grounds on which he rests his counsel. To seek unto God, and...
_THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ.—CONTINUED_ I. Application of the Vision (Job 5:1). “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints (‘holy ones’—probably _angels_, as Job 15:...
EXPOSITION JOB 5:1 Eliphaz, having narrated his vision, and rehearsed the words which the spirit spoke in his ear, continues in his own person, first (Job 5:1) covertly reproaching Job, and then (ver...
Call now (Job 5:1), Eliphaz is saying to Job. if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will thou turn? (Job 5:1) Now it would seem that maybe in those days there were those...
Isaiah 40:28; Job 11:7; Job 26:5; Job 37:5; Job 9:10;...
Who, &c. — Here Eliphaz enters upon a discourse of the infinite perfection of God's nature and works; which he doth as an argument to enforce the exhortation to seek and commit his cause to God, Job 5...