Job 5:2

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 5:2

2. For wrath כעשׂ signifies also grief. Passionate sorrow, such as Job had indulged, slays the foolish. 2 Corinthians 7:10. In the word for, Eliphaz resumes the leading thought of this discourse men reap what they sow. The passions of a man for instance, “envy,” (jealousy,) an envy that even looks wistfully at non-existence, (Job 3:3) are not only the ruin of a man, but they are the marks of “a fool,” אויל a word which he repeats in the next verse. “The violence of sin brings no help,... read more