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Verse Job 15:23. _HE WANDERETH ABROAD FOR BREAD_] He is reduced to a
state of the utmost indigence, he who was once in affluence requires a
morsel of bread, and can scarcely by begging procure enough...
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HE WANDERETH ABROAD FOR BREAD - The Septuagint renders this, “he is
destined to be food for vultures” - κατατέτακται
δὲ εἰς σῖτα γυψίν _katatetaktai_ _de_ _eis_
_sitos_ _gupsin_. The meaning of t...
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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...
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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...
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HE WANDERETH ABROAD, &C.— _His carcase to be cast forth as food for
the vulture._ Heath. _He wandereth about, flying the oppressor._
Houbigant....
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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...
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_HE WANDERETH ABROAD FOR BREAD, SAYING, WHERE IS IT? HE KNOWETH THAT
THE DAY OF DARKNESS IS READY AT HIS HAND._
Wandereth in anxious search for bread. Famine in the Old Testament
depicts sore need (I...
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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 ha...
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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 15
ELIPHAZ’S SECOND SPEECH...
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HE WANDERETH ABROAD FOR BREAD. — This is one of the points in which
the picture seems inconsistent, because overdrawn, except that forage
as well as plunder may be the object of marauding raids....
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נֹ֘דֵ֤ד ה֣וּא לַ † לֶּ֣חֶם אַיֵּ֑ה
יָדַ֓ע ׀ כִּֽי ־נָכֹ֖ון בְּ יָדֹ֣ו
יֹֽום ־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃...
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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...
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“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...
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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 m...
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He wandereth (o) abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth
that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
(o) God not only impoverishes the wicked often, but even in their
prosperity he p...
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(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...
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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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HE WANDERETH ABROAD FOR BREAD,.... Either as a plunderer and robber,
he roves about to increase his worldly power and substance; or rather,
being reduced to poverty, wanders about from place to place,...
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He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth
that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Ver. 23. _He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?_] He is
hard put to it...
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_He wandereth abroad for bread_ His poverty is so great, that he is
forced to wander hither and thither to seek for bread, and cannot find
it, a just punishment for him that took away the bread and su...
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ELIPHAZ ACCUSES JOB OF IMPIETY...
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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 considera...
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"Fearful that he may become impoverished, the unrighteous man seeks to
hunt and hoard food, anticipating his need for hiding because of his
wrong-doing. For such. person, darkness stalks in the daytim...
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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 prosper...
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His poverty is so great, that he is forced to wander hither and
thither to seek for bread, and cannot find it. A just punishment for
him that took away the bread and substance of others by violence. H...
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Job 15:23 about H5074 (H8802) bread H3899 knows H3045 (H8804) day
H3117 darkness H2822 ready H3559 (H8737) hand H3027
wandereth - Job 30:3-4; Genesis 4:12; Psalms 59:15, Psalms 109:10;...
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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...
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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...
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_He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?_
THE CRY FOR BREAD
There are certain things which if men want they will have. I have
heard say that in the old bread riots, when men were actuall...
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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...
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_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...
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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 i...
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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...
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Amos 5:20; Ecclesiastes 11:8; Genesis 4:12; Hebrews 10:27; Hebrews
11:37; Hebrews 11:38; Job 18:12; Job 18:18; Job 18:5; Job 18:6;...
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Knoweth — From his own guilty conscience....