Job 5:1
CALL, etc.] i.e. 'make your complaint against God to the angels'; 'do you think they will help you?' SAINTS] RV 'holy ones,' i.e. the angels.... [ Continue Reading ]
CALL, etc.] i.e. 'make your complaint against God to the angels'; 'do you think they will help you?' SAINTS] RV 'holy ones,' i.e. the angels.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
WRATH] RV 'vexation.' ENVY] RV 'jealousy.' Such rash conduct brings destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
CURSED] i.e. rejected as an accursed thing. At first Eliphaz was inclined to envy the prosperity of the wicked; but in a moment he sees there is no room for envy. He would not accept their position at any price, so sudden and sure was their downfall.... [ Continue Reading ]
CRUSHED IN THE GATE] the gate of the city, where justice was administered: cp. Psalms 127:5. There are none to support their cause or to influence the judge.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE THORNS] the protecting thorn hedge. 6, 7. Affliction is not accidental, but is due to man's sinful nature. ALTHOUGH] RV 'for.'... [ Continue Reading ]
1] RV 'As for me, I.' Eliphaz, instead of murmuring, would leave his case in the hands of One who is both great and wise.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO SET] RV 'so that he setteth,' i.e setteth men up by raising them from despair.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE TAKETH THE WISE IN THEIR OWN CRAFTINESS] quoted by St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 3:19, the only quotation from Job in the NT. IS CARRIED HEADLONG] i.e. furthered to their hurt.... [ Continue Reading ]
The bewildered, haunted state into which the crooked devices of the wicked bring them.... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THEIR MOUTH] RV 'of their mouth.' 17-27. The blessedness of affliction if regarded as correction.... [ Continue Reading ]
SCOURGE OF THE TONGUE] of false accusers and slanderers: cp. Job 5:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN LEAGUE WITH THE STONES OF THE FIELD] His land will be free from stones; a part of the general thought of being at peace with all creation: cp. Proverbs 16:7. For the idea of a sympathy between man and nature cp. Romans 8:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
TABERNACLE] RV 'tent.' SHALT NOT SIN] RV 'shalt miss nothing.'... [ Continue Reading ]