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Job 5:5

Job 5:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

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Job 5 — OverviewJob 5 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleEliphaz, in the foregoing chapter, for the making good of his charge against Job, had vouched a word from heaven, sent him in a vision. In this chapter he appeals to those that bear record on earth, to the…Job 5 — OverviewJob 5 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJob 5:1, Eliphaz shews that the end of the wicked is misery; Job 5:6, that man is born to trouble; Job 5:8, that God is to be regarded in affliction; Job 5:17, the happy end of God’s correction.Job 5 — OverviewJob 5 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleIn this chapter Eliphaz goes on to prove, and further confirm and establish, what he had before asserted, that not good men, but wicked men only, are afflicted of God, at least greatly, so as to have their substance…Job 5:1-5Job 5:1-5 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleA very warm dispute being begun between Job and his friends, Eliphaz here makes a fair motion to put the matter to a reference. In all debates perhaps the sooner this is done the better if the contenders cannot…Job 5:1-5Job 5:1-5 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe lot of the foolish. By a skilful turn of thought, Eliphaz exhibits the consequences of human folly— 1. AS THEY AFFECT THE LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL FOOLISH ONE. "Wrath killeth and envy slayeth" him. By his folly he…Job 5:1-7Job 5:1-7 · The Pulpit CommentaryEliphaz to Job: 3. The history of a fool. I. THE FOOL'S CHARACTER. 1. An impious fool. The mental and moral portrait of the aevil (verse 2) is minutely outlined in the Book of Proverbs, as distinguished by contempt of…