E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 4:9
blast. Hebrew. neshamah. App-16 . breath = spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9 . nostrils. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. read more
Job 4:9 Niv
E.W. Bullinger
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 4:9-10
Job 4:9-10. By the blast of God they perish, &c.— By the breath of God they perish; for, at the blast of his anger, the roarings of the lion, and the growling of the black lion, are hushed, and the teeth of the young lions are broken. Heath. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 4:9
9. breath of his nostrils—God's anger; a figure from the fiery winds of the East (Job 1:16; Isaiah 5:25; Psalms 18:8; Psalms 18:15). 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 4:7-11
Eliphaz’s view of suffering 4:7-11This is one of the clearest expressions of Eliphaz’s view of why people suffer and his view of the basis for the divine-human relationship (Job 4:7). He believed good people always win and the bad always lose. He was asserting that Job’s sins were finding him out. Bildad and Zophar shared this conclusion, but experience does not support it, as Job pointed out later. Eliphaz also explained the basis for his arguments: personal experience (Job 4:8).... 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
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
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 4:1-21
VII.THE THINGS ELIPHAZ HAD SEENJob 4:1-21; Job 5:1-27ELIPHAZ SPEAKSTHE ideas of sin and suffering against which the poem of Job was written come now dramatically into view. The belief of the three friends had always been that God, as righteous Governor of human life, gives felicity in proportion to obedience and appoints trouble in exact measure of disobedience. Job himself, indeed, must have held the same creed. We may imagine that while he was prosperous his friends had often spoken with him... 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