Job 4:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They are destroyedc from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. ”

• Job 4:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  They are destroyed from morning to evening - Margin, “beaten in pieces.” This is nearer to the Hebrew. The phrase “from morning to evening” means between the morning and the evening; that is, the...

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• Job 4:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  They are destroyed from (o) morning to evening: they perish for ever (p) without any regarding [it]. (o) They see death continually before their eyes and daily approaching them. (p) No man for all...

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• Job 4:20 - 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...

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• Job 4:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it . They are destroyed from morning to evening - In almost every moment of time some human being comes into th...

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• Job 4:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  They are destroyed from morning to evening, &c.— From morning until evening they are destroyed; for want of discernment they perish together: Heath; who renders the next verse thus: It not t...

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• Job 4:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. From morning to evening - unceasingly; or, better, between the morning and evening of one short day...

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• Job 4:20 - 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 4:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  From morning to evening. — The process is continual and unceasing, and when we consider the ravages of time on history, we may well say, as in Job 4:20 , that “none regardeth it.” The next verse,...

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• Job 4:20 - 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 4:20 - 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 4:20 - 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 4:20 - 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 4:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  They are destroyed from morning to evening ,.... That is, those that dwell in houses of clay, before described; the meaning is, that they are always exposed to death, and liable to it every day they...

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• Job 4:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it]. Ver. 20. They are destroyed from morning to evening ] Heb. They are beaten to pieces, as in a mortar, w...

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• Job 4:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They are destroyed Bruised, or broken, as the same word, יכתו, juccattu , is rendered, Micah 1:7 , where we read, The graven images shall be broken to pieces; from morning to evening That is, e...

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• Job 4:20 - 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 4:20 - 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 4:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  From morning to evening; either, 1. Speedily, between morning and evening, like the grass; they flourish in the morning, and in the evening are cut off, Psalms 90:5,6 . Or rather, 2. All the...

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• Job 4:20 - 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 4:20 - 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 4:20 - 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 4:20 - 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 4:20 - 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 4:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 15:6 ; 2 Chronicles 21:20 ; Isaiah 38:12 ; Isaiah 38:13 ; Job 14:14 ; Job 16:22 ; Job 18:17 ; Job 20:7 ; Proverbs 10:7 ; Psalms 37:36 ; Psalms 39:13 ; Psalms 92:7

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• Job 4:20 - 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 4:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Destroyed — All the day long, there is not a moment wherein man is not sinking towards death and corruption. Perish — In reference to this present worldly life, which when once lost is never recove...

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