“ Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: ”
Behold, he put no trust in his servants - These are evidently the words of the oracle that appeared to Eliphaz; see Schultens, in loc. The word servants here refers to angels; and the idea is, th...
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his (m) angels he charged with folly: (m) If God finds imperfection in his angels when they are not maintained by his power, how much more shall he lay f...
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...
put no trust . putteth no faith in. Hebrew. 'aman. App-69. Compare Job 15:15 ; Job 15:31 . servants . messengers ( Psalms 104:4 ). charged . will charge.
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...
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: Behold, he put no trust in his servants - This verse is generally understood to refer to the fall of angels; for there w...
His angels he charged with folly— Schultens observes, that the Hebrew word rendered charged, signifies to discern or take notice of; see Isaiah 41:20 .; and that the word rendered folly, s...
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: Folly. Imperfection ( Job 2:10 ) is to be attributed to the angels, in comparison with Him. The holiness of some...
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...
Behold, he put no trust in his servants. — The statement is a general one; it does not refer to any one act in the past. We should read putteth and chargeth. Eliphaz repeats himself in Job 15:...
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...
(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...
Behold, he put no trust in his servants ,.... Some think the divine oracle or revelation ends in Job 4:17 , and that here Eliphaz makes some use and improvement of it, and addresses Job, and argues...
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: Ver. 18. Lo, he put no trust in his servants, &c. ] Those menial, domestic servants of his, the holy angels that...
Behold , &c. For it deserves thy serious consideration. These and the following words seem to be the words of Eliphaz, explaining the former vision, and applying it to Job's case, and enforcing...
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...
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...
Behold; this deserves thy serious consideration. These and the following words seem to be the words of Eliphaz, explaining the former vision, and applying it to Job's case, and enforcing it by furt...
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...
trust ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 2:12 ). fear ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).
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....
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...
2 Peter 2:4 ; Isaiah 6:2 ; Isaiah 6:3 ; Job 15:15 ; Job 15:16 ; Job 25:5 ; Job 25:6 ; Jude 1:6 ; Psalms 103:20 ; Psalms 103:21 ; Psalms 104:4
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...
Servants — They are called his servants by way of eminency, that general name being here appropriated to the chief of the kind, to intimate that sovereign dominion which the great God hath over the...