What is man? — This is the ceaseless burden.·(See Job 4:17; Job 9:2; Job 25:4, &c.)
What is man that he should be clean? - The object of Eliphaz in this is to overturn the positions of Job that he was righteous, and had been puni...
What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should (i) be righteous? (i) His purpose is to prove that Job, as...
Job 15:2-19 is a polemic against Job's arrogance and pretence of wisdom. Job's words are empty and violent ( Job 15:2 f.). He does away with all...
man . a mortal. Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14. See note on Job 14:1 . clean . pure.
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? What is man, that he should be clean? - מה אנ...
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Eliphaz repeats the revelation ( Job 4:17...
The Second Series of Speeches (Job 15-21) The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his sturdy maintenance of his innocence,...
Eliphaz uses Job's own words ( Job 14:4 ) to convict him of his sinfulness.
XIII. THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE Job 15:1-35 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology and the fa...
“The Heavens Are not Clean” Job 15:1-35 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by rebuking Job, Job 15:1-16...
Here the second cycle of argument begins, and again Eliphaz is the first speaker. It is at once evident that Job's answers had wounded him. He first...
(14) What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? (15) Behold, he putteth no trust in his sain...
What [is] man, that he should be clean ?.... Frail, feeble, mortal man, or woeful man, as Mr. Broughton renders it; since he is sinful, whereby he i...
What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Ver. 14. What is man, that he should be cl...
What is man? Hebrew, אנושׁ, enosh, frail, weak, imperfect man; that he should be clean? That is, that he should pretend to be so; or, that any sh...
ELIPHAZ CLAIMS JOB CONDEMNS HIMSELF (vv.1-6) This response of Eliphaz lacks the measure of self-restraint he had shown in his first address. He...
Second Address of Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. ...
What is man, Heb. frail , or sick , or wretched man ? his mean original and corrupt nature showeth him to be unclean. Which is born of a woman...
SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably irritated at his litt...
Job 15:2 . Fill his belly with the east wind; a hot dry wind, the least favourable to vegetation. This is an angry figure of speech, equivalent to...
What is man that he should be clean? Original sin Of all the truths acknowledged and assumed in this ancient book, we find none more clearly or...
EXPOSITION The second colloquy between Job and his friends is, like the first (ch. 3-14.), one in which all of them take part, and the same orde...
What is man that he should be clean, and he which is born of a woman that he should be righteous? Eliphaz here takes up a point which he had broached...
Eliphaz Accuses Job of Impiety
1 John 1:8-10 ; 1 Kings 8:46 ; 2 Chronicles 6:36 ; Ecclesiastes 7:20 ; Ecclesiastes 7:29 ; Ephesians 2:2 ; Ephesians 2:3 ; Galatians 3:22 ;...
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?