“ It shall be accomplishedd before his time, and his branch shall not be green. ”
It shall be accomplished before his time - Margin, “cut off.” The image here is that of a tree, which had been suggested in Job 15:30 . Here it is followed up by various illustrations drawn from...
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. It shall be accomplished before his time - I believe the Vulgate gives the true sense: Antequam dies ejus impleantur, peri...
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. Literally, 'it (the tree to which he is compared Job 15:30 or else his life) shall be filled up' i:e., 'he shall...
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...
It shall be accomplished. — That is, paid in full before its time. The remainder of this chapter calls for little explanation. In it the speaker only repeats the orthodox and familiar saw that the...
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...
“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...
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...
(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 s...
It shall be accomplished before his time , Either the recompence or reward of his trusting vanity, in vain persons or things, the punishment of such a trust, the sorrows and troubles following upon...
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. Ver. 32. It shall be accomplished before his time ] Heb. In not his day. That recompense before mentioned of calamity a...
It shall be accomplished Namely, that which was last mentioned, that vanity should be his recompense: before his time When, by the course of nature, and common providence, he might have continued...
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...
17 I will show 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, a...
It shall be accomplished, to wit, that which was last mentioned, that vanity should be his recompence . Or, it, i.e. his branch, mentioned in the next clause of the verse, from which it is underst...
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...
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...
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...
Eliphaz Accuses Job of Impiety
Ecclesiastes 7:17 ; Ezekiel 17:8-10 ; Hosea 14:5-7 ; Hosea 9:16 ; Isaiah 27:11 ; Job 14:7-9 ; Job 18:16 ; Job 18:17 ; Job 22:16 ; Job 8:16-19 ; John 15:6 ; Psalms 52:5-8 ; Psalms 55:23
Accomplished — That vanity should be his recompence. Before — When by the course of nature, and common providence he might have continued much longer.