Job 5:16

1 Samuel 2:8; 1 Samuel 2:9; Exodus 11:7; Isaiah 14:32; Psalms 107:42; Psalms 63:11; Psalms 9:18; Romans 3:19; Zechariah 9:12

Related Commentaries of Job 5:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So the poor hath hope - From the interposition of God. They are not left in a sad and comfortless condition. They are permitted to regard God as...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity (r) stoppeth her mouth. (r) If the wicked are compelled by God's works to shut their mouths, how much more they...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. So the poor - דל dal, he who is made thin, who is wasted, extenuated; hath hope - he sees wha...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. The poor hath hope - of the interposition of God. Iniquity stoppeth her mouth - (...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Iniquity stoppeth her mouth. — See Psalms 107:42 , where the same phrase occurs.
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

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(9) Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: (10) Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fie...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So the poor hath hope ,.... Who observing this and that and the other poor man crying to the Lord and saved, hopes that he may be saved by him also;...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. Ver. 16. So the poor hath hope ] How should it be otherwise? experience will breed confide...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

So the poor , &c. Hebrews ותהי לדל, vatehi ladal, even to the poor there is hope: Dal signifies one who is deprived of his strength or power,...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

So this poor man obtaineth what he in some measure hoped or expected from God, to whom he committed his cause; and other poor men will be encouraged...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

So the poor hath hope. The expediency of preventive wisdom By God’s different treatment of men, according to their different characters, the af...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Answering A Possible Objection On Job's Part
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. Believers may at all times and in all circumstances place their full confidence in Jehovah, k...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

So — So he obtains what he hoped for from God, to whom he committed his cause. Iniquity — Wicked men. Stoppeth — They are silenced and confounded,...

¹⁶ So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

Related Commentaries of Job 5:16

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

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 5:16