Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 15:24
As a king ready to the battle. — Or, They prevail against him like a king: he is destined to be like a ball (comp. Isaiah 22:18), the tennis-ball of calamity.
As a king ready to the battle. — Or, They prevail against him like a king: he is destined to be like a ball (comp. Isaiah 22:18), the tennis-ball of calamity.
Verse Job 15:24. _TROUBLE AND ANGUISH SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID_] He shall be in continual fear of death; being now brought down by adversity, and stripped of all the goods which he had got by oppression,...
AS A KING READY TO THE BATTLE - Fully prepared for a battle; whom it would be vain to attempt to resist. So mighty would be the combined forces of trouble and anguish against him, that it would be vai...
THE SECOND SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES CHAPTER 15 Eliphaz's Second Address _ 1. Tells Job that he is self-condemned (Job 15:1)_ 2. Charges him with pride (Job 15:7) 3. The wicked and their lot (Job 15...
_shall make him afraid_ Rather, MAKE HIM AFRAID. _ready to the battle_ Fully prepared and therefore irresistible....
This doctrine itself. The passage gives a picture of the conscience of the wicked man filled with presentiments of evil, in opposition to such statements as that of Job, ch. Job 12:6, and to his whole...
Eliphaz instructs Job regarding the troubled conscience And the Disastrous Fate of the Wicked Man Having sufficiently rebuked Job's presumption and irreverence Eliphaz proceeds to take up his princip...
AS A KING READY TO THE BATTLE— _As the master-goat ruleth over the flock._ Heath. Schultens reads the verse thus, _Distress and perplexity shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, like a king: he...
2. The destiny of the ungodly shows the retributive justice of God. (Job 15:17-35) TEXT 15:17-35 17 I WILL SHOW THEE, HEAR THOU ME; And that which I have seen I will declare 18 (Which wise men hav...
_TROUBLE AND ANGUISH SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID; THEY SHALL PREVAIL AGAINST HIM, AS A KING READY TO THE BATTLE._ Prevail - break upon him suddenly and terribly, as a king, etc. (Proverbs 6:11)....
READY] fully prepared....
THE SECOND SERIES OF SPEECHES (JOB 15-21) The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his sturdy maintenance of his innocence, and the fearlessness with which in his anguish he has...
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 15 ELIPHAZ’S SECOND SPEECH...
Eliphaz repeated the friends’ main idea. Wicked men always suffer a terrible fate. They will have an awful life and a terrible death....
יְֽ֭בַעֲתֻהוּ צַ֣ר וּ מְצוּקָ֑ה תִּ֝תְקְפֵ֗הוּ כְּ...
XIII. THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE Job 15:1 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology and the facts of human life. No positive reconciliation is effected a...
“THE HEAVENS ARE NOT CLEAN” Job 15:1 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by _rebuking_ Job, Job 15:1. He complains that the words of Job proved him to be unwise, J...
Here the second cycle of argument begins, and again Eliphaz is the first speaker. It is at once evident that Job's answers had wounded him. He first criticized Job's manner, charging him with using me...
Trouble and (p) anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. (p) He shows the weapons God uses against the wicked, who lift up themselves against him,...
(17) В¶ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; (18) Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: (19) Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no st...
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...
TROUBLE AND ANGUISH SHALL MAKE HIM AFRAID,.... Either his present troubles shall frighten him, they being so very dismal, terrible, and distressing, and make him fear that others were coming on, more...
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. Ver. 24. _Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid_] Or scare him, not only out of his comfo...
_Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid_ When trouble comes, instead of trusting and hoping, and comforting himself in God, as good men do in such cases, 1 Samuel 30:6, he is full of torment, dread...
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid, fill him with terror, anguish, find alarm; THEY SHALL PREVAIL AGAINST HIM, overpower, overthrow him, AS A KING READY TO THE BATTLE, the rush of the sudden at...
ELIPHAZ ACCUSES JOB OF IMPIETY...
ELIPHAZ CLAIMS JOB CONDEMNS HIMSELF (vv.1-6) This response of Eliphaz lacks the measure of self-restraint he had shown in his first address. He had first at least spoken with a measure of considerat...
Job had said that God had terrified him (Job 9:34; Job 13:21), now Eliphaz argues that it is actually. man's own guilty conscience that terrifies him....
17-35 Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospe...
i.e. When trouble comes, instead of trusting, and hoping, and comforting himself in God, as good men do in such cases, as 1 SAMUEL 30:6, he is full of torment and dread of the issue of it, and conclud...
Job 15:24 Trouble H6862 anguish H4691 afraid H1204 (H8762) overpower H8630 (H8799) king H4428 ready H6264 battle...
CONTENTS: Eliphaz's theory about Job, charging him with foolishly justifying himself. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz. CONCLUSION: Those speeches which do no good, being of no service either to God, o...
Job 15:2. _Fill his belly with the east wind;_ a hot dry wind, the least favourable to vegetation. This is an angry figure of speech, equivalent to a declaration that Job's defence was a mere storm of...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:1 Second Cycle. The arguments of each participant harden in the second round of speeches. Once again the three friends say that Job is suffering because of his sin. Job refuses to a...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:20 Eliphaz describes the WICKED MAN. He hopes that Job will see himself in the descriptions and will repent. ⇐...
_SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ_ Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably irritated at his little success with Job, who rejected his friend’s counse...
EXPOSITION The second colloquy between Job and his friends is, like the first (ch. 3-14.), one in which all of them take part, and the same order of speakers is maintained. Job answers each speaker in...
Now at this point, Eliphaz, who was the first friend of Job's to speak, speaks for the second time. And he claims that he is older than Job, more experienced than Job, and thus Job ought to listen to...
Isaiah 13:3; Job 6:2; Matthew 26:37; Matthew 26:38; Proverbs 1:27;...