Job 5:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

If there be any ... - rather, 'Call now! will He [God] reply to thee?' Job, after the revelation just given, cannot be so presumptuous as to think God, or any of the holy ones (Daniel 4:17, angels) round His throne, will vouchsafe a reply (a judicial expression) to his rebellious complaint (Umbreit). I prefer the English Version. Job may call as loud as he will, complaining of wrongful treatment, but none will answer from above. No holy (English Version, saint) angel will undertake to be advocate of so bad a cause. The idea of heavenly advocacy for man is found Job 33:23; Zechariah 1:12.

Job 5:1

1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?