Job 4:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. ”

Job 4:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Doth not their excellency ... - Dr. Good renders this, “Their fluttering round is over with them,” by a very forced construction of the passage. Translators and expositors have been very much div...
Job 4:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without (q) wisdom. (q) That is, before any of them were so wise, as to think of death.
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. Doth not their excellency - go away! - Personal beauty, corporeal strength, powerful eloquence, and various mental...
Job 4:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. Their excellency - ( Psalms 39:11 ; Psalms 146:4 ; 1 Corinthians 13:8 ). But Umbreit by an Oriental image...
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away ?.... Either the soul which is in them, and is the most excellent part of them; this, though it dies not, yet it goes away and departs from the b...
Job 4:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. Ver. 21. Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? ] Journeyeth not their excellency with them? so Br...
Job 4:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? Whatsoever is really, or by common estimation, excellent in men, all their natural, and moral, and civil accomplishments, as high birth, great ri...
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Whatsoever is really or by common estimation excellent in men, all their natural, and moral, and civil accomplishments, as high birth, great riches, power, and wisdom, &c.; these are so far from...
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - 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....
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 14:16 ; Isaiah 2:22 ; James 1:11 ; Job 36:12 ; Luke 12:20 ; Luke 16:22 ; Luke 16:23 ; Psalms 146:3 ; Psalms 146:4 ; Psalms 39:11 ; Psalms 39:5 ; Psalms 49:14 ; Psalms 49:20
Job 4:21 - 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...
Job 4:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Excellency — Whatsoever is by common estimation excellent in men, all their natural, and moral, and civil accomplishments, as high birth, great riches, power and wisdom, these are so far from prese...

Job 4:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 4:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 4:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 4:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 4:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 4:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 4:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 4:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 4:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 4:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 4:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 4:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 4:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 4:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 4:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 4:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 4:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 4:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 4:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 4:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 4:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 4:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 4:21 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job 4:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes