ヨブ記 5:3-5 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 5:1-5

A 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 end it between themselves. So well assured is Eliphaz of the goodness of his own cause that he moves Job himself to choose the arbitrators (Job 5:1): Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; that is, 1. ?If there be any that suffer as thou sufferest. Canst thou produce an... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root ,.... Such foolish wicked men as before described; those Eliphaz had observed to prosper in the world, and increase in riches, and even to have attained to a seeming stability and firmness, as if they would ever continue in such happy circumstances, see Jeremiah 12:2 ; by this he would obviate an objection that here might be raised and made against the assertion he was proving, that wicked men are afflicted and punished of God for their sins; whereas it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:4

His children are far from safety ,.... From outward safety, from evils and dangers, to which they are liable and exposed, not only from men, who hate them for their father's sake, who have been oppressors of them, or from God, who visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children; and from spiritual and eternal safety or "salvation", or from salvation in the world to come, as the Targum, they treading in their fathers steps, and imitating their actions: and they are crushed in the gate... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:5

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up ,.... This is to be understood of the foolish rich man before described, as taking root and flourishing; though he sows, and reaps and gathers in his harvest, and fancies he has goods laid up for many years, to be enjoyed by him, yet he is taken away by death, and another eats what he has gathered; either his hungry heirs, that he has kept bare, and without the proper necessaries of life; or the poor whom he has oppressed, who, driven by hunger, seize upon... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root - I have seen wicked men for a time in prosperity, and becoming established in the earth; but I well knew, from God's manner of dealing with men, that they must soon be blasted. I even ventured to pronounce their doom; for I knew that, in the order of God's providence, that was inevitable. I cursed his habitation. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 5:4

His children are far from safety - His posterity shall not continue in prosperity. Ill gotten, ill spent; whatever is got by wrong must have God's curse on it. They are crushed in the gate - The Targum says, They shall be bruised in the gate of hell, in the day of the great judgment. There is reference here to a custom which I have often had occasion to notice: viz., that in the Eastern countries the court-house, or tribunal of justice, was at the Gate of the city; here the magistrates... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 5:5

Whose harvest - Their possessions, because acquired by unjust means, shall not be under the protection of God's providence; he shall abandon them to be pillaged and destroyed by the wandering half-starved hordes of the desert banditti. They shall carry it suddenly off; even the thorns - grain, weeds, thistles, and all, shall they carry off in their rapacious hurry. The robber swalloweth us - Or, more properly, the thirsty, צמים tsammim , as is plain from their swallowing up or... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 5:1-5

The 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 excites the wrath or the envy of others, or his folly leads him into deadly courses. II. AS THEY AFFECT HIS LOT AND CONDITION . His prosperity, even if it begin, is but of temporary duration. If he take root, suddenly his habitation is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 5:1-7

Eliphaz 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 true wisdom ( Proverbs 1:1-33 ; Proverbs 7:1-27 ), talkativeness ( Proverbs 10:8 ), self-conceit ( Proverbs 12:15 ), irritability of temper ( Proverbs 12:16 ), pride ( Proverbs 14:3 ), fretfulness against God ( Proverbs 19:3 ), sinfulness of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 5:1-27

Eliphaz, having narrated his vision, and rehearsed the words which the spirit spoke in his ear, continues in his own person, first ( Job 5:1-7 ) covertly reproaching Job, and then (verses 8-27) seeking to comfort him by the suggestion that, if he will place himself unreservedly in the hands of God, it is still possible that God may relent, remove his chastening hand, deliver him from his troubles, and even give him back all his former prosperity. The anticipation is in remarkable... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 5:1-5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 5:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 5:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 5:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 5:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 5:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 5:1-27

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