Job 4:21

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

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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....
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 o...
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 fall...
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, corporea...
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 Cor...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Doth not, etc.] rather, 'Is not their tent-cord (or tent-peg) pulled up in them?' The falling tent is a figure of collapse and death. Even without...
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 wri...
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 tw...
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. T...
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 sle...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS MY soul! here are some very sweet instructions to be gathered from this chapter. In whatever light Eliphaz, the Temanite, be considered,...
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...
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?...
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,...
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,...
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...
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,...
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 o...
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 preacher...
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 betw...
The Biblical Illustrator

And His angels He charged with folly. Folly in angels “His angels He charged with folly.” Revelation conveys to us the highly interesting infor...
The Biblical Illustrator

They die, even without wisdom. Dying in ignorance “Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny must the soul be blinded, dwarfed, stupefied...
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 th...
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 positio...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? They die, even without wisdom, literally, "Is it not torn away is their cord?" the picture being...
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...
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 ric...

²¹ Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

Related Commentaries of Job 4:21

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 4:21