Amos 8:9; Deuteronomy 28:29; Isaiah 59:10; Job 12:25; Proverbs 4:19
They meet with darkness in the day-time - Margin, “run into;” compare the notes at Isaiah 59:10 . The sense is, that where there is really no ob...
They meet with (n) darkness in the daytime, and (o) grope in the noonday as in the night. (n) In things plain and evident they show themselves fools...
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...
meet . meet repeatedly.
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. They meet with darkness in the daytime - God confounds them and the...
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. They meet. Judicial blindness often is sent upon keen men o...
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 nev...
The bewildered, haunted state into which the crooked devices of the wicked bring them.
Darkness in the daytime. — This is possibly an allusion to the Egyptian plague of darkness “that may be felt” ( Exodus 10:21 ), as the words used a...
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...
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 th...
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...
(9) Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: (10) Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fie...
They meet with darkness in the daytime ,.... Which may denote their infatuation in things the most plain and clear, and which are obvious to everyon...
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. Ver. 14. They meet with darkness in the daytime ] They are infat...
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness Men wise to do evil, or wise in the opinion of the world; he not only deceives their hopes and counsels,...
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...
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 s...
i.e. In plain things they run into gross mistakes and errors, and commonly choose those counsels and courses which are worst for themselves. Darknes...
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...
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 h...
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...
Answering A Possible Objection On Job's Part
They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope in the noonday as in the night, afflicted with blindness by God, being punished for their impertinen...
Meet — In plain things they run into gross mistakes, and chuse those courses which are worst for themselves. Darkness often notes misery, but here...
14 They meetf with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.