“ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, ”
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered - See the notes at Job 2:11 .
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, s...
answered and said . replied and said. The idiom (App-6) requires that the first verb (where nothing has been as yet said) must be rendered according to the context: "spake", "prayed", "began", "co...
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered - For seven days this person and his two friends had observed a profound silence, being awed and confounded at the sigh...
Eliphaz reproves Job, who, having consoled others in adversity, nevertheless desponds himself. He affirms, that it was a thing unheard of, for an innocent man to perish; on the contrary, that the w...
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, Eliphaz - the mildest of Job's three accusers. The greatest of Job's calamities, and his complaints against God, and the opinion that calamities a...
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...
VII. THE THINGS ELIPHAZ HAD SEEN Job 4:1-21 ; Job 5:1-27 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE ideas of sin and suffering against which the poem of Job was written come now dramatically into view. The belief o...
“Shall Mortal Man Be More Just than God?” Job 4:1-21 The first cycle of speeches is opened by Eliphaz. It must be remembered that he and the two others believed that special suffering resulted...
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 fo...
CONTENTS This chapter opens with the controversy between Job and his friends, which runs through the whole book, until, at the close of it, GOD settles the dispute. Eliphaz begins, and his expostula...
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said. When Job was done cursing his day, and had finished his doleful ditty on that subject, then Eliphaz took the opportunity of speaking, not being able to...
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, Ver. 1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite ] Then, when Job had laid about him in this sort; and, giving his tongue too much liberty to lash out, had uttered wo...
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered Job's three friends reasoning on the principles of an equal providence, and supposing that affliction could happen only in the way of punishment, which necessaril...
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 th...
The Address of Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2...
JOB CHAPTER 4 Eliphaz speaketh, though it will grieve Job, Job 4:1,2 . Job had instructed and strengthened others in their sorrows, but now fainted himself, Job 4:3-5 . Eliphaz reproacheth hi...
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 impatien...
Eliphaz Eliphaz is a religious dogmatist whose dogmatism rests upon a mysterious and remarkable experience ( Job 4:12-16 ). Did a spirit ever pass before Job's face? Did Job's hair of his fles...
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...
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...
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....
Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,
Job 15:1 ; Job 2:11 ; Job 22:1 ; Job 3:1 ; Job 3:2 ; Job 42:9 ; Job 6:1 ; Job 8:1
The Philosophy of Eliphaz Job 4:1-21 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 El...