“ Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. ”
Behold, thou hast instructed many - That is, thou hast instructed many how they ought to bear trials, and hast delivered important maxims to them on the great subject of the divine government. Th...
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou (b) hast strengthened the weak hands. (b) You have comforted others in their afflictions but you cannot now comfort yourself.
Eliphaz is provoked to reply, in spite of his unwillingness, by the tone of Job's speech, which seems to him altogether irreverent. He wonders that Job, who had comforted so many others in trouble, s...
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. Thou hast instructed many - Thou hast seen many in affliction and distress, and thou hast given them such advice as was s...
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. Weak hands - ( Isaiah 35:3 ; 2 Samuel 4:1 ).
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, thou hast instructed many. — There is a conspicuous want of feeling in Eliphaz. Without any true sympathy, however, he may have given the outward signs of it ( Job 2:12-13 ). He charges Job...
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...
(2) If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? (3) Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. (4) Thy words...
Behold, thou hast instructed many ,.... This is introduced with a "behold", either as a note of admiration, that such a man, who had instructed others, should act the part he now does; or as a note...
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. Ver. 3. Behold, thou hast instructed many ] sc. To do each day's duty with Christian diligence, and to bear each day...
Behold, thou hast instructed many It is well known thou hast given good counsel unto others, teaching them those lessons which, it appears, thou hast not thyself learned, and wilt not practise, nam...
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...
The Address of Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 2...
Thou hast instructed many; teaching them those lessons which thou hast not learned, and wilt not practise, to wit, patiently to bear afflictions, and to submit to God's will and providence in all t...
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 4:1 . 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...
Colossians 4:6 ; Deuteronomy 3:28 ; Ephesians 4:29 ; Ezekiel 13:22 ; Ezra 6:22 ; Genesis 18:19 ; Isaiah 35:3 ; Isaiah 50:4 ; Job 16:5 ; Luke 22:32 ; Luke 22:43 ; Proverbs 10:21 ; Proverb...
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...