1 Samuel 2:6; Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 30:26; Psalms 147:3
For he maketh sore - That is, he afflicts. And bindeth up - He heals. The phrase is taken from the custom of binding up a wound; see Isaiah...
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...
bindeth up... His hands. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up - Thus nervously rendered by Coverdale,...
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. For - assigning a motive to induce Job to accept chastisement pati...
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...
He maketh sore, and bindeth up. — The sentiment here expressed is one of those obvious ones which lose all their force from familiarity with them,...
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...
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up ,.... Or, "though he maketh sore, yet he bindeth up" d; as a surgeon, who makes a wound the sorer by probing and...
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. Ver. 18. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up ] As a surgeon maketh an in...
For he maketh sore , &c. God's usual method is first to wound and then to heal, first to convince and then to comfort, first to humble and then...
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...
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 18 For he maketh sore, and bi...
Bindeth up, to wit, the wounds, as good surgeons use to do when they have dressed them, in order to their healing. Compare Psalms 147:3 Ezekiel...
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...
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth. Happiness “Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth.” There are comparatively few happy ones...
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...
Eliphaz Admonishes Job to Bear his Trial Patiently
for He maketh sore and bindeth up, in order to heal the wound which He has inflicted, Hosea 6:1 ; Deuteronomy 32:39 ; He woundeth, and His hands m...
For he, &c. — God's usual method is, first to humble, and then to exalt. And he never makes a wound too great, too deep for his own cure.
18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.