Job 5:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ”

• Job 5:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  He disappointeth the devices of the crafty - He foils them in their schemes, or makes their plans vain. This too was the result of close observation on the part of Eliphaz. He had seen instances...

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• Job 5:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Eliphaz advises Job to accept the Divine discipline so that God may again show Himself gracious. As for me, instead of being impatient like a fool, I would seek unto God ( cf. Job 1:21 ; Job 2:10...

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• Job 5:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  enterprise . something stable. See note on "sound wisdom". Proverbs 2:7 .

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• Job 5:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty - All these sayings refer to God's particular providence,...

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• Job 5:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. Enterprise - literally, realization. The Hebrew х tuwshiyaah ( H8454 )] combines in the one...

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• Job 5:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of Eliphaz (concluded) 1-5. Eliphaz warns Job that to show a resentful temper at God's dispensations is folly, and that fools never prosper.

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• Job 5:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. — Or, so that their hands can do-nothing that is sound or of worth, can accomplish nothing effectual.

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• Job 5:12 - 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 5:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Benefits of Chastisement Job 5:1-27 In this chapter Eliphaz closes his first speech. He had already suggested that Job's sufferings were the result of some secret sin. It could not be other...

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• Job 5:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Proceeding, Eliphaz asked Job to whom he would appeal, to which of the holy ones, that is, as against the truth which he had declared, or in defense of himself. In the light of evident guilt, all vex...

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• Job 5:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (9) Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: (10) Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: (11) To set up on high those that be low; tha...

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• Job 5:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He disappointeth the devices of the crafty ,.... Or, "it disappointeth"; that is, the rain, as some Jewish commentators m interpret it, and the whole paragraph to this sense; the rain coming upon th...

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• Job 5:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise. Ver. 12. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty ] He vacateth and rendereth ineffectual the c...

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• Job 5:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He disappointeth the devices of the crafty On the contrary, he defeats the craftiest designs of evil and subtle men to exalt themselves. They may place a great deal of confidence in their own abili...

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• Job 5:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  FURTHER OBSERVATIONS BY ELIPHAZ (vv.1-27) Eliphaz suggests to Job that he call out to creatures for help, even to holy ones - holy men or angels, - and see if anyone will answer him (v.1). He is...

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• Job 5:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;   7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.   8 I would seek unto God, and u...

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• Job 5:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Of the crafty; such as are cunning to work evil, and to cover it with fair pretences, as hypocrites use to do, and as Job's friends charged him with doing: God breaks the hopes and designs of such...

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• Job 5:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ.—CONTINUED I. Application of the Vision ( Job 5:1 ). “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints (‘holy ones’—probably angels , as...

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• Job 5:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 5:1 . To which of the saints wilt thou turn? Men in anguish look every way for help, but how can either angel or departed spirit of the just help us, without a special command from heaven. Men...

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• Job 5:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. The disappointment of the crafty The word “crafty” may mean “prudent,” but usually it denotes such as are wickedly “cunning.” The meaning of the text...

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• Job 5:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 5:1-18 Eliphaz, having narrated his vision, and rehearsed the words which the spirit spoke in his ear, continues in his own person, first ( Job 5:1-18 ) covertly reproaching...

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• Job 5:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Answering A Possible Objection On Job's Part

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• Job 5:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 12:11 ; Acts 23:12-22 ; Isaiah 19:3 ; Isaiah 37:36 ; Isaiah 8:10 ; Job 12:16 ; Job 12:17 ; Nehemiah 4:15 ; Proverbs 21:30 ; Psalms 21:11 ; Psalms 33:10 ; Psalms 33:11 ; Psalms 37:17...

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