Job 4:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. ”

• Job 4:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Now a thing - To confirm his views, Eliphaz appeals to a vision of a most remarkable character which he says he had had on some former occasion on the very point under consideration. The object o...

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• Job 4:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Now a thing was (h) secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. (h) A thing I did not know before was declared to me by vision, that is that whoever thinks himself just will be f...

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• Job 4:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Eliphaz confirms the truth of his doctrine by telling of a vision which he had had. A revelation came upon him like a thief in the night (lit. a word stole upon me). His thoughts were raised to a hig...

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• Job 4:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  a little . a whispering.

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• Job 4:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 454 ELIPHAZ REPROVES JOB Job 4:12-19 . Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falle...

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• Job 4:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. Now a thing was secretly brought to me - To give himself the more authority, he professes to have received a vision fro...

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• Job 4:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Mine ear received a little thereof— The word שׁמצ shemets rendered little, may be derived from an Arabic one, signifying a string of pearls. So the oracle that he here mentions was a collecti...

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• Job 4:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. A thing - Hebrew, a word. Eliphaz confirms his view by a divine declaration or revelation which was secretly an...

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• Job 4:12 - 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...

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• Job 4:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Now a thing. — He now proceeds to enforce and illustrate what he has said in highly poetical language, which has been versified in one of Byron’s Hebrew Melodies. Secretly brought to me. — Liter...

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• Job 4:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Job 4:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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...

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• Job 4:12 - 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 fo...

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• Job 4:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (12) В¶ Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. (13) In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, (14) Fear came upon me, and tre...

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• Job 4:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Now a thing was secretly brought to me ,.... From reason and experience, Eliphaz proceeds to a vision and revelation he had from God, showing the purity and holiness of God, and the frailty, weaknes...

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• Job 4:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. Ver. 12. Now a thing was secretly brought to me ] Heb. Was brought to me by stealth, closely and privily, so as othe...

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• Job 4:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Now Hebrew, and , or moreover, a thing , &c. To show Job more evidently the sin and folly of impatience, and to impress what he had already advanced, or should yet further advance on that sub...

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• Job 4:12 - L. 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 th...

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• Job 4:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.   13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,   14 Fear came upon me, and...

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• Job 4:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Now, Heb. and , or moreover , I will further convince thee by a vision which I had relating to such matters as these. That here follows a relation of a vision is apparent from the punctual descri...

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• Job 4:12 - 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 impatien...

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• Job 4:12 - 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...

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• Job 4:12 - 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...

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• Job 4:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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....

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• Job 4:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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 assumpt...

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• Job 4:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 13:12 ; Psalms 62:11

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• Job 4:12 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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• Job 4:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Now — To convince Job of the sin and folly of impatience, Eliphaz relates a vision he had had, perhaps since he came to him. Which in that age and state of the church, before the holy scriptures we...

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