“ For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. ”
For he maketh sore - That is, he afflicts. And bindeth up - He heals. The phrase is taken from the custom of binding up a wound; see Isaiah 1:6 , note; Isaiah 38:21 , note. This was a commo...
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...
bindeth up... His hands. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up - Thus nervously rendered by Coverdale, For though he make a wounde, he giveth a medicyne...
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. For - assigning a motive to induce Job to accept chastisement patiently-namely, God, who chastises us, can and will...
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.
He maketh sore, and bindeth up. — The sentiment here expressed is one of those obvious ones which lose all their force from familiarity with them, but which come home sometimes in sorrow with a pow...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up ,.... Or, "though he maketh sore, yet he bindeth up" d; as a surgeon, who makes a wound the sorer by probing and opening it, to let out the matter and make way for...
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. Ver. 18. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up ] As a surgeon maketh an incision to let out the imposthumed matter, and then...
For he maketh sore , &c. God's usual method is first to wound and then to heal, first to convince and then to comfort, first to humble and then to exalt. And he never makes a wound too great, to...
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...
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. ...
Bindeth up, to wit, the wounds, as good surgeons use to do when they have dressed them, in order to their healing. Compare Psalms 147:3 Ezekiel 34:4 . The sense is, Though he hath seen it fit...
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...
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...
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth. Happiness “Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth.” There are comparatively few happy ones on this world of ours. What is happiness? The word...
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...
Eliphaz Admonishes Job to Bear his Trial Patiently
1 Samuel 2:6 ; Deuteronomy 32:39 ; Isaiah 30:26 ; Psalms 147:3
For he, &c. — God's usual method is, first to humble, and then to exalt. And he never makes a wound too great, too deep for his own cure.