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FEAR CAME UPON ME - Margin, “Met me.” The Chaldee Paraphrase
renders this, “a tempest,” זיקא. The Septuagint, φρίκη
_frikē_ - “shuddering,” or “horror.” The sense is, that he
became greatly alarmed...
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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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ALL. the multitude of....
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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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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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Eliphaz depicts graphically the circumstances in which he received the
message from heaven. In the dead night, in the midst of his perplexing
thoughts upon his bed, a supernatural terror suddenly seiz...
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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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FEAR CAME UPON ME— As in a poem every thing is or ought to be alive,
so _far_ is here made a person, who comes up to him as an officer of
justice, and arrests him. See Heath, and Peters, p. 204....
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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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_FEAR CAME UPON ME, AND TREMBLING, WHICH MADE ALL MY BONES TO SHAKE._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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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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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...
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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....
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פַּ֣חַד קְ֭רָאַנִי וּ רְעָדָ֑ה וְ
רֹ֖ב עַצְמֹ
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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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Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones (i) to
shake.
(i) In these visions which God shows to his creatures, there is always
a certain fear joined, that the authority of it might be...
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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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FEAR CAME UPON ME, AND TREMBLING,.... Not only a dread of mind, but
trembling of body; which was often the case even with good men,
whenever there was any unusual appearance of God unto them by a voic...
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Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Ver. 14. _Fear came on me, and trembling_] Fear in the inward man,
and trembling in the outward. And this is God's method still: th...
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_Fear came upon me, and trembling_ The Hebrew is very poetical,
namely, _Fear called me_, or _called to me._ Job expresses himself in
similar language, Job 17:14. _I have said_, קראתי _, karati_,
lite...
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fear came upon me and trembling, meeting him in such a way as to cause
a shudder to pass over him, WHICH MADE ALL MY BONES TO SHAKE, in a
deep and fearful agitation....
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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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CAME UPON ME:
_ Heb._ met me
ALL MY BONES:
_ Heb._ the multitude of my bones...
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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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FEAR CAME UPON ME; either caused by the apparition following; or sent
by God to humble him, and to prepare him for the more diligent
attention to, reverent reception of; and ready compliance with, the...
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Job 4:13
I. Consider the spectre itself and its appearance. (1) It was produced
by a likeness of moral state. It was a time of thought. But this does
not convey all the idea of the passage. The Hebrew...
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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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_In thoughts from the visions of the night._
THE SPECTRE’S QUESTION
Disguise it how we may, this is a ghost story.
I. Attempt to realise the spectre. Recollect that for every one of us
spirit has c...
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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
t
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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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Daniel 10:11; Habakkuk 3:16; Isaiah 6:5; Job 33:19; Job 7:14;...
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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...