Job 4:9

2 Kings 19:7; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Exodus 15:10; Exodus 15:8; Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 30:33; Job 1:19; Job 15:30; Psalms 18:15; Revelation 2:16

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By the blast of God - That is, by the judgment of God. The figure is taken from the hot and fiery wind, which, sweeping over a field of grain, dr...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

By the (f) blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. (f) He shows that God needs no great preparation to destro...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 J...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

blast. Hebrew. neshamah. App-16. breath . spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9. nostrils. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. Job 4:9 By the blast of God they perish - As the noxious and...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

By the blast of God they perish, &c.— By the breath of God they perish; for, at the blast of his anger, the roarings of the lion, and the grow...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. Breath of his nostrils - God's anger. A figure from the...
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...
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

(7) В¶ Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? (8) Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquit...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

By the blast of God they perish ,.... They and their works, the ploughers, sowers, and reapers of iniquity; the allusion is to the blasting of corn...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. Ver. 9. By the blast of God they perish ] He puts himself to...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

By the blast of God they perish , &c. These two verses are thus interpreted by Heath: By the breath of God they perish; for, at the blast of hi...
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

7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow in...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By the blast of God, to wit, of his nostrils , as it here follows, i.e. by his anger, which in men shows itself in the nostrils, by hot and freque...
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...
Scofield Reference Notes

breath That is, by His anger, as ( Isaiah 30:33 ); ( Exodus 15:8 ); ( Job 1:19 ); ( Job 15:30 ); ( Isaiah 11:4 ); ( 2 Thessalonians 2:8 ).
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

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. Sowing and reaping Eliphaz speaks of himself here as an observ...
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

By the blast of God they perish, as God breathes upon them in anger, and by the breath of His nostrils are they consumed, like plants which a burni...
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

The blast — Of his nostrils, as it follows; by his anger, which in men shews itself, in the nostrils, by hot and frequent breathings there, by a se...

⁹ By the blast of God they perish, and by the breatha of his nostrils are they consumed.

Related Commentaries of Job 4:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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

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

Scofield Reference Notes

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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

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