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Verse Job 15:26. _HE RUNNETH UPON HIM._] _Calmet_ has properly
observed that this refers to GOD, who, like a mighty conquering hero,
marches against the ungodly, rushes upon him, seizes him by the
thr...
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HE RUNNETH UPON HIM - That is, upon God. The image here is taken from
the mode in which people rushed into battle. It was with a violent
concussion, and usually with a shout, that they might intimidat...
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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 RUNNETH UPON HIM— _Who will run upon him,_ &c. Job 15:27 _after
he had covered his face._ Houbigant: who says that Eliphaz here points
out the wicked man, flying before his destroyer, and before Go...
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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 RUNNETH UPON HIM, EVEN ON HIS NECK, UPON THE THICK BOSSES OF HIS
BUCKLERS:_
On his neck - rather, 'with outstretched neck'-namely, that of the
rebel uplifted hanghtily (Umbreit). (Psalms 75:5.)...
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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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יָר֣וּץ אֵלָ֣יו בְּ צַוָּ֑אר בַּ֝
עֲבִ֗י גַּבֵּ֥י מָֽגִנָּֽיו׃...
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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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_And is. Hebrew, "even upon the thick bosses of his buckler."
(Haydock) --- God thus seizes his antagonist, who, like Pharao, swells
with pride. (Calmet) (Deuteronomy xxxii. 15.)_...
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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 RUNNETH UPON HIM, [EVEN] ON [HIS] NECK,.... As a fierce and furious
enemy runs upon another with great wrath and fury; as the he goat in
Daniel's vision ran upon the ram, in the fury of his power,...
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He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of
his bucklers:
Ver. 26. _He runneth upon him, even on his neck_] Vulgate, He runneth
upon him (God) with an erected neck; such is hi...
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_He runneth upon him_ That is, the wicked man (of whom, and of whose
sin and misery, he speaks in the whole context, both preceding and
following) assaults God, and, as it were, rushes swiftly and fur...
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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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Job is here pictured as going on the offensive against God and
attacking Him. Yet there actually are sinners who do exactly this, and
seek to take God head-on....
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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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RUNNETH UPON HIM, i.e. assaults him, or rusheth upon him with great
swiftness and fury, as this phrase signifies, DANIEL 8:6. This _he_ is
either,
1. God, who was expressed twice in the last verse, a...
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Job 15:26 Running H7323 (H8799) stubbornly H6677 strong H5672 embossed
H1354 shield H4043
runneth - 2 Chronicles 28:22, 2 Chronicles 32:13-17
even on - Job 16:12; Genesis 49:8; Psalms 18:40...
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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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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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2 Chronicles 28:22; 2 Chronicles 32:13; Genesis 49:8; Job 16:12;
Psalms 18:40...
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He — The wicked man. Neck — As a stout warrior who cometh close to
his adversary and grapples with him. He acts in flat opposition to
God, both to his precepts and providences. Bosses — Even where his...