E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 4:19
houses of clay. Compare 2 Corinthians 5:1 . before = sooner than. read more
Job 4:19 Niv
E.W. Bullinger
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 4:19
Job 4:19. How much less in them, &c.— How much more in them. Heath. The expression, dwelling in houses of clay, is used with great propriety to convey the idea of the frailty of the human nature: whose foundation is in the dust, is a poetical expression to denote the formation of man from the dust of the ground. There are various opinions concerning the next clause; who are crushed before the moth, עשׁ לפני lipni osh, like or after the manner of the moth. "I retain this interpretation,"... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 4:19
19. houses of clay— ( :-). Houses made of sun-dried clay bricks are common in the East; they are easily washed away ( :-). Man's foundation is this dust ( :-). before the moth—rather, "as before the moth," which devours a garment (Job 13:28; Psalms 39:11; Isaiah 50:9). Man, who cannot, in a physical point of view, stand before the very moth, surely cannot, in a moral, stand before God. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 4:1-22
B. The First Cycle of Speeches between Job and His Three Friends chs. 4-14The two soliloquies of Job (chs. 3 and 29-31) enclose three cycles of dialogue between Job and his three friends. Each cycle consists of speeches by Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, in that order, interspersed with Job’s reply to each address. This pattern continues through the first two cycles of speeches (chs. 4-14 and 15-21) but breaks down in the third when Zophar failed to continue the dialogue."Now the discussion... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 4:1-27
1. Eliphaz’s first speech chs. 4-5Eliphaz’s first speech has a symmetrical introverted (chiastic) structure that emphasizes the central section."A Opening remark (Job 4:2) B Exhortation (Job 4:3-6) C God’s dealings with men (Job 4:7-11) D The revelation of truth (Job 4:12-21) C’ God’s dealings with men (Job 5:1-16) B’ Exhortation (Job 5:17-26)A’ Closing remark (Job 5:27)" [Note: Andersen, p. 111.] read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 4:12-21
Eliphaz’s vision 4:12-21Eliphaz’s authority was a vision (Job 4:12). It seems that his vision was not a revelation from God for the following reasons. He did not say that it was from the Lord. God normally identified revelations from Himself as such, to those who received them, when He used this method of revelation. Furthermore, the content of what Eliphaz received in the vision (Job 4:17-21) does not represent God as He has revealed Himself elsewhere in Scripture. Specifically, God appears... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 4:1-21
The First Speech of Eliphaz (Job 4, 5)Eliphaz is the principal and probably the oldest of the three friends: cp. Job 32:6. He is also the most considerate. But the complainings of Job in Job 3 had evidently deepened in him the bad impression which must have been created by Job’s sufferings, and being ignorant of the true cause of his trials he draws false conclusions from them. Whilst admitting that Job is fundamentally a pious man, Eliphaz infers that his sufferings must be the punishment of... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 4:19
(19) Houses of clay.—This may perhaps contain an allusion to Genesis 11:3.Are crushed before the moth?—That is to say, are so frail that even the moth destroys them. read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 4:1-21
Job 4:1 If he had been a fool he would never have been dear to Job, nor would he have been one of the three amongst all Job's acquaintances who came to him from afar.... Eliphaz is partly a rhetorician, and, like all persons with that gift, he is frequently carried off his feet and ceases to touch the firm earth.... A certain want of connexion and pertinence is observable in him. A man who is made up of what he hears or reads always lacks unity and directness. Confronted by any difficulty or by... read more
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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 4:1-21
Eliphaz speaks (4:1-5:27)The first of the three friends to speak is Eliphaz, who is probably the oldest of the three. He is also the least severe in the accusations brought against Job (4:1-2). He begins by noting that in the past Job comforted others in their troubles, but now that he has troubles himself, his faith has failed. If Job truly honoured God and was upright in his ways, there would be no need for this despondency (3-6). The person who is innocent, argues Eliphaz, need not fear... read more