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Verse Job 4:8. _THEY THAT PLOUGH INIQUITY_] A proverbial form of
speech drawn from nature. Whatever seed a man sows in the ground, he
reaps the same kind; for every seed produces its like. Thus Solom...
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EVEN AS I HAVE SEEN - Eliphaz appeals to his own observation, that
people who had led wicked lives were suddenly cut off. Instances of
this kind he might doubtless have observed - as all may have done...
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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 is provoked to reply, in spite of his unwillingness, by the
tone of Job's speech, which seems to him altogether irreverent. He
wonders that Job, who had comforted so many others in trouble, sh...
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_even as I have seen_ Rather, AS I HAVE SEEN. The words might be also
rendered, _when I saw those that ploughed iniquity … they reaped
it_. Eliphaz draws a distinction between two classes of men, on b...
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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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First, Eliphaz wonders that Job, who had comforted so many in trouble,
and who was a righteous man, should fall into such despair under his
afflictions, forgetting the great principle that the righteo...
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REMEMBER, I PRAY THEE, WHO EVER PERISHED, &C.— _Recollect, I pray
thee,_ &c. Eliphaz here begins to shew what he suspected. The strong
term he uses, _who ever perished, being innocent?_ and his adding...
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TEXT 4:1-11
4 THEN ANSWERED ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE, AND SAID,
2 If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?
But who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 Behold, thou hast instructed man...
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_EVEN AS I HAVE SEEN, THEY THAT PLOW INIQUITY, AND SOW WICKEDNESS,
REAP THE SAME._
They that plow iniquity ... reap the same - (Proverbs 22:8; Hosea
8:7; Hosea 10:13;...
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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.
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CHAPTER 4
ELIPHAZ’S FIRST SPEECH
V...
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Eliphaz was partly right. God punishes evil people. And God protects
good people. But Eliphaz’s thoughts were too simple.
Job was suffering. But Job was an innocent man. So, Eliphaz’s words
could not...
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THEY THAT PLOW INIQUITY. — Comp. Galatians 6:7; and comp. also the
strange expression of Isaiah 5:18....
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כַּ אֲשֶׁ֣ר רָ֭אִיתִי חֹ֣רְשֵׁי
אָ֑וֶן וְ זֹר
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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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Even as I have seen, they that (e) plow iniquity, and sow wickedness,
reap the same.
(e) They who do evil cannot but receive evil....
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_Reap them. He insinuates that Job now reaps what he had sown,
Galatians vi. 8._...
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(7) В¶ Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or
where were the righteous cut off? (8) Even as I have seen, they that
plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. (9) By the bl...
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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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EVEN AS I HAVE SEEN,.... Here he goes about to prove, by his own
experience, the destruction of wicked men; and would intimate, that
Job was such an one, because of the ruin he was fallen into:
THEY...
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Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap
the same.
Ver. 8. _Even as I have seen_] And therefore can boldly say: for what
so sure as sight? See Num 11:23 Genesis 34:1,2....
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_Even as I have seen_, &c. As thou hast never seen any example of a
righteous man cut off, so I have seen many of wicked men cut off for
their wickedness. _They that plough_, &c. They that designedly...
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Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, sowing mischief in their
fields, AND SOW WICKEDNESS, misery and ruin for others, REAP THE SAME.
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap," Galati...
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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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"ACCORDING TO WHAT. HAVE SEEN, THOSE WHO PLOW INIQUITY AND THOSE WHO
SOW TROUBLE HARVEST IT": Eliphaz will often base his arguments on
experience. Three times he will say, "I have seen" (Job 4:8; Job...
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7-11 Eliphaz argues, 1. That good men were never thus ruined. But
there is one event both to the righteous and to the wicked,
Ecclesiastes 9:2, both in life and death; the great and certain
differenc...
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As thou hast never seen any example of a righteous man cut off, so on
the contrary I have seen many examples of wicked men cut off for their
wickedness. Or, _As far as I have observed_; or, _But as I...
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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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_Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness,
reap the same._
SOWING AND REAPING
Eliphaz speaks of himself here as an observer of God’s providence;
and the result of his observat...
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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 4:8 THOSE WHO PLOW INIQUITY AND SOW TROUBLE REAP THE
SAME. At the opening of his speech, Eliphaz introduces the claim that
the friends will relentlessly defend throughout the dialogue:...
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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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2 Corinthians 9:6; Galatians 6:7; Galatians 6:8; Hosea 10:12; Hosea
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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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Even — As thou hast never seen any example of a righteous man cut
off, so I have seen many of wicked men cut off for their wickedness.
They — They that designedly work wickedness, first preparing
them...