Job 4:7 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 4:7-11

Eliphaz here advances another argument to prove Job a hypocrite, and will have not only his impatience under his afflictions to be evidence against him but even his afflictions themselves, being so very great and extraordinary, and there being no prospect at all of his deliverance out of them. To strengthen his argument he here lays down these two principles, which seem plausible enough:? I. That good men were never thus ruined. For the proof of this he appeals to Job's own observation (Job... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 4:7

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent ?.... Here Eliphaz appeals to Job himself, and desires him to recollect if ever anyone instance had fallen under his observation, in the whole course of his life, or it had ever been told him by credible persons, that an "innocent" man, by whom he means not one entirely free from sin original or actual, for he knew there was no such persons in the world, since the fall of Adam, but a truly good and gracious man, who was not guilty of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 4:7

Remember, I pray thee - Recollect, if thou canst, a single instance where God abandoned an innocent man, or suffered him to perish. Didst thou ever hear of a case in which God abandoned a righteous man to destruction? Wert thou a righteous man, and innocent of all hidden crimes, would God abandon thee thus to the malice of Satan? or let loose the plagues of affliction and adversity against thee? read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 4:1-11

Eliphaz to Job: the opening of the second controversy: 1. The relation of suffering to sin. I. A COURTEOUS EXORDIUM . Eliphaz, the oldest and wisest of the friends, adopts an apologetic strain in replying to Job's imprecation, representing the task assumed by him as: 1 . Painful to Job ; which it certainly was. In circumstances even the most favourable, it requires no little grace to receive admonition with equanimity; not to speak of counting it a kindness and esteeming it an... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 4:1-11

Eliphaz and Job: forgotten truths called to mind. However misapplied to his particular case may have been the speeches of Job's friends, there can be no dispute concerning the purity and the sublimity of the great truths for which they here appear as spokesmen. If not well directed to Job, they may be well directed to us. Each of the friends represents a certain aspect of the truths which relate man to God. In the speech of Eliphaz the main position taken is that man, in his ignorance and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 4:1-21

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 4:6-8

Affliction. I. THE SOURCE OF IT . 1 . Negatively. 2 . Positively. II. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF IT . 1 . Universal. It is the portion, not of one man, or a few, or even of many, but of the race. It forms a portion of the birthright of humanity. 2 . Certain. It is absolutely unavoidable. As surely as the sparks ascend, so surely will those sinful passions rage that entail suffering and misery. 3 . Perpetual. Meeting man upon the threshold of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 4:7

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? The heart of the matter is now approached. Job is called upon to "remember" the long-established moral axiom, that only evil-doing brings down upon men calamities, and that therefore, where calamities fall, them must be precedent wickedness. If he does not admit this, he-is challenged to bring forward examples, or even a single example, of suffering innocence. If he does admit it, he is left to apply the axiom to himself . Or where... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 4:7-11

The consequences of evil-doing. The New Testament teaching is, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." It is precisely as the present verses. "They that plough iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same." So does the testimony of the ages warn evil-doers. This rule is inevitable; it is just; it is natural; it is admonitory. I. THIS ORDER IS INEVITABLE . He who has ordained the laws of nature, fixed, calm, indestructible, has also ordained that the doer of evil shall... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 4:7

Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? - The object of this question is manifestly to show to Job the inconsistency of the feelings which he had evinced. He claimed to be a righteous man. He had instructed and counselled many others. He had professed confidence in God, and in the integrity of his own ways. It was to have been expected that one with such pretensions would have evinced resignation in the time of trial, and would have been sustained by the recollection of his... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 4:7-11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 4:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 4:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 4:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 4:1-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 4:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 4:6-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 4:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 4:7-11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 4:7

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