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Verse Job 4:18. _BEHOLD, HE PUT NO TRUST IN HIS SERVANTS_] This verse
is generally understood to refer to the fall of angels; for there were
some of those heavenly beings _who kept not their first_ _...
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BEHOLD, HE PUT NO TRUST IN HIS SERVANTS - These are evidently the
words of the oracle that appeared to Eliphaz; see Schultens, in loc.
The word servants here refers to angels; and the idea is, that Go...
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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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This is what the vision said. Translate as _mg.:_ Shall mortal man be
just before God, shall a man be pure before his maker? Even the angels
are fallible, how much more man, who inhabits a house of cl...
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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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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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_he put no trust_ Better, HE PUTTETH.
_he charged with folly_ Rather, HE CHARGETH WITH ERROR. The "servants"
of God are here His heavenly ministers, as the parallel, "angels",
indicates. The word "fo...
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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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HIS ANGELS HE CHARGED WITH FOLLY— Schultens observes, that the
Hebrew word rendered _charged,_ signifies _to discern_ or _take notice
of;_ see Isaiah 41:20.; and that the word rendered _folly,_ signif...
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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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_BEHOLD, HE PUT NO TRUST IN HIS SERVANTS; AND HIS ANGELS HE CHARGED
WITH FOLLY:_
Folly. Imperfection (Job 2:10) is to be attributed to the angels, in
comparison with Him. The holiness of some of them...
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HE PUT NO TRUST] because of their imperfections. SERVANTS] attendant
angels....
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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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Eliphaz heard the words in verses 18-21. The spirit in his dream spoke
these words. But this verse is wrong. God does trust his servants. God
trusted Job in Job 1:8. And God was proud that Job still s...
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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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BEHOLD, HE PUT NO TRUST IN HIS SERVANTS. — The statement is a
general one; it does not refer to any one act in the past. We should
read _putteth_ and _chargeth._ Eliphaz repeats himself in Job 15:15....
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הֵ֣ן בַּ֭ עֲבָדָיו לֹ֣א יַאֲמִ֑ין וּ֝
בְ
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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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Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his (m) angels he charged
with folly:
(m) If God finds imperfection in his angels when they are not
maintained by his power, how much more shall he lay fo...
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_Angels, who fell, as the fathers explain it. (Estius) (Tirinus) ---
Hebrew, "behold, he put no trust in his servants, and his angels he
charged with folly," chap. xv. 15., and xxv. 5., and 2 Peter ii...
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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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BEHOLD, HE PUT NO TRUST IN HIS SERVANTS,.... Some think the divine
oracle or revelation ends in Job 4:17, and that here Eliphaz makes
some use and improvement of it, and addresses Job, and argues with...
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Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged
with folly:
Ver. 18. _Lo, he put no trust in his servants, &c._] Those menial,
domestic servants of his, the holy angels that wait u...
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_Behold_, &c. For it deserves thy serious consideration. These and the
following words seem to be the words of Eliphaz, explaining the former
vision, and applying it to Job's case, and enforcing it by...
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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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Behold, He put no trust in His servants, the ministering angels; AND
HIS ANGELS HE CHARGED WITH FOLLY, to the very spirits of light He
imputes error, they cannot compare with Him in holiness and purit...
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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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AND HIS ANGELS HE CHARGED:
Or, nor in his Angels, in whom he put light...
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"HE PUTS NOT TRUST EVEN IN HIS SERVANTS; AND AGAINST HIS ANGELS HE
CHARGES ERROR"
This indicates that Job and his friends understood the Biblical truth
that some angels had sinned in the past (2 Pete...
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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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BEHOLD; this deserves thy serious consideration. These and the
following words seem to be the words of Eliphaz, explaining the former
vision, and applying it to Job's case, and enforcing it by further...
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Job 4:18 trust H539 (H8686) servants H5650 charges H7760 (H8799)
angels H4397 error H8417
he put -...
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TRUST
(_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _
FEAR
(_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
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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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_And His angels He charged with folly._
FOLLY IN ANGELS
“His angels He charged with folly.” Revelation conveys to us the
highly interesting information that there is between the great Spirit
and man,...
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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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2 Peter 2:4; Isaiah 6:2; Isaiah 6:3; Job 15:15; Job 15:16;...
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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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Servants — They are called his servants by way of eminency, that
general name being here appropriated to the chief of the kind, to
intimate that sovereign dominion which the great God hath over the
an...