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Job 4:9

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"By the blast of God they perish, and by the breatha of his nostrils are they consumed."

  • Job 4:9 - Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 4:9. _BY THE BLAST OF GOD THEY PERISH_] As the noxious and parching east wind blasts and destroys vegetation, so the wicked perish under the indignation of the Almighty....

  • Job 4:9 - Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BY THE BLAST OF GOD - That is, by the judgment of God. The figure is taken from the hot and fiery wind, which, sweeping over a field of grain, dries it up and destroys it. In like manner Eliphaz says...

  • Job 4:9 - Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 (Job 5:1)...

  • Job 4:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Eliphaz is provoked to reply, in spite of his unwillingness, by the tone of Job's speech, which seems to him altogether irreverent. He wonders that Job, who had comforted so many others in trouble, sh...

  • Job 4:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BLAST. Hebrew. _neshamah._ App-16. BREATH. spirit. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. NOSTRILS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._...

  • Job 4:9 - Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    First, Eliphaz wonders that Job, who had comforted so many in trouble, and who was a righteous man, should fall into such despair under his afflictions, forgetting the great principle that the righteo...

  • Job 4:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BY THE BLAST OF GOD THEY PERISH, &C.— _By the breath of God they perish; for, at the blast of his anger, the roarings of the lion, and the growling of the black lion, are hushed, and the teeth of the...

  • Job 4:9 - College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT 4:1-11 4 THEN ANSWERED ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE, AND SAID, 2 If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? 3 Behold, thou hast instructed man...

  • Job 4:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BY THE BLAST OF GOD THEY PERISH, AND BY THE BREATH OF HIS NOSTRILS ARE THEY CONSUMED._ Breath of his nostrils - God's anger. A figure from the fiery winds of the East (Job 1:16; Isaiah 5:25; Psalms...

  • Job 4:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 ev...

  • Job 4:9 - EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Job 4:9 - ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מִ נִּשְׁמַ֣ת אֱלֹ֣והַ יֹאבֵ֑דוּ וּ מֵ ר֖וּחַ אַפֹּ֣ו יִכְלֽוּ׃...

  • Job 4:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Job 4:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • Job 4:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Job 4:9 - Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    By the (f) blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. (f) He shows that God needs no great preparation to destroy his enemies: for he can do it with the blast of h...

  • Job 4:9 - Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (7) В¶ Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? (8) Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. (9) By the bl...

  • Job 4:9 - John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    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...

  • Job 4:9 - John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • Job 4:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BY THE BLAST OF GOD THEY PERISH,.... They and their works, the ploughers, sowers, and reapers of iniquity; the allusion is to the blasting of corn by the east wind, or by mildew, c. having used the fi...

  • Job 4:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

    By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. Ver. 9. _By the blast of God they perish_] He puts himself to no great pain to punish them; but blows them away a...

  • Job 4:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _By the blast of God they perish_, &c. These two verses are thus interpreted by Heath: _By the breath of God they perish; for, at the blast of his anger, the roarings of the lion, and the growling of...

  • Job 4:9 - Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Job 4:9 - Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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 thoug...

  • Job 4:9 - Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    The idea here might be that though lions are strong, their teeth can be broken, and they can perish. In like manner, Job, who used to be strong, was broken and his children lost....

  • Job 4:9 - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-11 Eliphaz argues, 1. That good men were never thus ruined. But there is one event both to the righteous and to the wicked, Ecclesiastes 9:2, both in life and death; the great and certain difference...

  • Job 4:9 - Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BY THE BLAST OF GOD, to wit, _of his nostrils_, as it here follows, i.e. by his anger, which in men shows itself in the nostrils, by hot and frequent breathings there, and therefore by an anthropopath...

  • Job 4:9 - Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 4:9 blast H5397 God H433 perish H6 (H8799) breath H7307 anger H639 consumed H3615 (H8799) the blast - Exodus 15:8, Exodus 15:10; 2 Kings 19:7; Psalms 18:15 by the breath of his nostrils - that is...

  • Job 4:9 - Scofield's Bible Commentary

    BREATH That is, by His anger, as (Isaiah 30:33); (Exodus 15:8); (Job 1:19); (Job 15:30); (Isaiah 11:4); (2 Thessalonians 2:8)....

  • Job 4:9 - Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Job 4:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • Job 4:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • Job 4:9 - The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • Job 4:9 - The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Job 4:9 - Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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?...

  • Job 4:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 19:7; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Exodus 15:10; Exodus 15:8; Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 30:33; Job 1:19; Job 15:30; Psalms 18:15; Revelation 2:16...

  • Job 4:9 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Job 4:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The blast — Of his nostrils, as it follows; by his anger, which in men shews itself, in the nostrils, by hot and frequent breathings there, by a secret, but mighty judgment of God, they are blown away...

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