Job 15:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? ”

• Job 15:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  That thou turnest thy spirit - That your mind is turned against God instead of acquiescing in his dealings. The views of Job he traces to pride and to overweening self-confidence, and perhaps not...

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• Job 15:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 15:2-19 is a polemic against Job's arrogance and pretence of wisdom. Job's words are empty and violent ( Job 15:2 f.). He does away with all religion ( Job 15:4 ) and breaks the reverential...

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• Job 15:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.

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• Job 15:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? That thou turnest thy spirit against God - The ideas here seem to be taken from an archer, who turns his eye an...

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• Job 15:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? i.e., frettest against God, and lettest fall rash words. Thy spirit - `thy breath:' implying the airy...

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• Job 15:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 15:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIII. THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE Job 15:1-35 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology and the facts of human life. No positive reconciliation is e...

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• Job 15:13 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “The Heavens Are not Clean” Job 15:1-35 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by rebuking Job, Job 15:1-16 . He complains that the words of Job proved him t...

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• Job 15:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 15:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (7) Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? (8) Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? (9) What knowest thou, that we know not?...

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• Job 15:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  That thou turnest thy spirit against God ,.... Not against men, his friends only, but against God himself, being filled with wrath and indignation at him; showing the enmity of his heart unto him, a...

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• Job 15:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth? Ver. 13. That thou turnest thy spirit against God ] A foul fault surely, but merely for want of a fair inter...

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• Job 15:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Why doth thy heart carry thee away? Why dost thou suffer thyself to be transported by the pride of thy heart, to use such unworthy and unbecoming expressions, both concerning us and concerning God...

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• Job 15:13 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 consid...

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• Job 15:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Second Address of Eliphaz. B. C. 1520.       1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,  ...

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• Job 15:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That, or for, or surely. Thy spirit, i.e. either thy breath, or thy rage, or thy soul; for all these the spirit signifies. Heb. Thou makest thy spirit to return to , or to return again against ,...

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• Job 15:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 cou...

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• Job 15:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 15:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 spea...

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• Job 15:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Eliphaz Attempts to Rebuke Job

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• Job 15:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  James 1:26 ; James 3:2-6 ; Job 10:3 ; Job 12:6 ; Job 15:25-27 ; Job 9:4 ; Malachi 3:13 ; Psalms 34:13 ; Romans 8:7 ; Romans 8:8

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• Job 15:13 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Against God — Eliphaz here does in effect give the cause on Satan's side, and affirms that Job had done as he said he would, Curse God to his face.

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