Job 4:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? ”

• Job 4:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Shall mortal man - Or, shall feeble man. The idea of “mortal” is not necessarily implied in the word used here, אנושׁ 'ĕnôsh . It means man; and is usually applied to the lower classes or ra...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Shall mortal man be more (l) just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? (l) He proves that if God punished the innocent, the creature would be more just than the creator, which was blas...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  This is what the vision said. Translate as mg.: Shall mortal man be just before God, shall a man be pure before his maker? Even the angels are fallible, how much more man, who inhabits a house of c...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Shall. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. mortal man. Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14. man . strong man. Hebrew. geber. App-14.

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? Shall mortal man - אנוש enosh; Greek βροτος poor, weak, dying man. Be more just than God? - Or, האנוש מאלוה יצדק haen...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? Mortal man ... a man. Two Hebrew words for man are used: the first implying his feebleness х 'ªnowsh ( H5...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Shall mortal man be more just than God? — This is the burden, or refrain, upon which the friends of Job are for ever harping. It is perfectly orthodox, but at the same time perfectly inadequate to...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Shall mortal man be more just than God ?.... Poor, weak, frail, dying man, and so sinful, as his mortality shows, which is the effect of sin; how should such a man be more righteous than God? who is...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? Ver. 17. Shall mortal man ] Sorry sinful man, a very mixture and hodge podge of dirt and sin, Miser, aerumnis et p...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall man, fallen man , as the word אנושׁ, enosh , here used, signifies, subject as he is to diseases, troubles, and all those calamities which are the nec...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The sense is, Thou, O Job, dost presumptuously accuse God for dealing harshly and unrighteously with thee, in sending thee into the world upon such hard terms, and punishing all innocent and righteou...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 4:13-17 I. Consider the spectre itself and its appearance. (1) It was produced by a likeness of moral state. It was a time of thought. But this does not convey all the idea of the passage. The...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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....

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ecclesiastes 7:20 ; Genesis 18:25 ; Jeremiah 12:1 ; Jeremiah 17:9 ; Job 14:4 ; Job 15:14 ; Job 25:4 ; Job 35:2 ; Job 40:8 ; Job 8:3 ; Job 9:2 ; Job 9:30 ; Job 9:31 ; Mark 7:20-23 ; Psa...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - 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...

  Read the comments

• Job 4:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  More just — Pretend more strictly to observe the laws of justice? Shall (enosh) mortal, miserable man (so the word signifies) be thus insolent? Nay, shall geber, the strongest and most eminent man,...

  Read the comments