Job 5:12-27

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 5:6-16

Eliphaz, having touched Job in a very tender part, in mentioning both the loss of his estate and the death of his children as the just punishment of his sin, that he might not drive him to despair, here begins to encourage him, and puts him in a way to make himself easy. Now he very much changes his voice (Gal. 4:20), and speaks in the accents of kindness, as if he would atone for the hard words he had given him. I. He reminds him that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be attributed to... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 5:17-27

Eliphaz, in this concluding paragraph of his discourse, gives Job (what he himself knew not how to take) a comfortable prospect of the issue of his afflictions, if he did but recover his temper and accommodate himself to them. Observe, I. The seasonable word of caution and exhortation that he gives him (Job 5:17): ?Despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. Call it a chastening, which comes from the father's love and is designed for the child's good. Call it the chastening of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:12

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty ,.... Or, "it disappointeth"; that is, the rain, as some Jewish commentators F13 Aben Ezra, Jarchi, & R. Simeon Bar Tzemach. interpret it, and the whole paragraph to this sense; the rain coming upon the earth makes it fruitful, and causes it to produce a plentiful crop, whereby the schemes of crafty men are disappointed, who in a time of drought withhold the corn, and enhance the price of it, and distress the poor; and this in order to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:13

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness ,.... As beasts are taken in a pit, or birds in a snare or net, or with birdlime; so these crafty men, who are wise in their own opinion, and really so in things natural, civil, and worldly, or however, to do evil are entangled and taken in their own schemes; they fall into the pit they have digged for others, and are snared in the works of their own hands, as Haman and his sons were hanged on the gallows he prepared for Mordecai, Esther 7:10 ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the daytime ,.... Which may denote their infatuation in things the most plain and clear, and which are obvious to everyone's view, even to such as are of much meaner capacities the themselves; and so it sometimes is, that the greatest politicians, men of the greatest sagacity and penetration, capable of forming and conducting the wisest counsels, yet blunder in things plain and easy to everyone; which must be imputed to their being given up to a judicial blindness... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:15

But he saveth the poor ,.... Who are so in a literal sense, and whom the Lord saves with a temporal salvation; these being the butt of the crafty, wise, and cunning, on whom their eyes are, for whom they lay snares, and lie in wait to draw them in; and these being helpless and without friends, God takes notice of them, appears for them, and arises for their help, and saves them: from the sword ; of their enemies, drawn against them and ready to be sheathed in them: from their mouth ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:16

So the poor hath hope ,.... Who observing this and that and the other poor man crying to the Lord and saved, hopes that he may be saved by him also; and having had experience of salvation out of one trouble or more, even out of six troubles, as in Job 5:19 , entertains a comfortable hope he shall be saved out of the seventh, or whatsoever he is in: the word F25 לדל "tenai", Montanus, Vatablus, Junius, Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius. used signifies one that is weak and feeble,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:17

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth ,.... Reproves, rebukes, convinces by his word, which is profitable for correction of men's minds and manners; and by his messengers, the prophets and ministers, who are sent as reprovers of the people, and to rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in their principles, and sober in their conversation; and by his Spirit, which makes the correction of the word and ministers effectual, and who reproves and convinces of sin, righteousness, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:18

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up ,.... Or, "though he maketh sore, yet he bindeth up" F4 Assembly's Annotations. ; as a surgeon, who makes a wound the sorer by probing and opening it, to let out the matter and make way for his medicine, and then lays on the plaster, and binds it up: so God causes grief and puts his people to pain, by diseases of body, or by making breaches in, their families and estates, and such like cutting providences; and then he binds up their breach, and heals... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:19

He shall deliver thee in six troubles ,.... Behaving as before directed; seeking unto God, committing his cause and case to him, and leaving it with him; and not despising the chastening of the Lord, but receiving and bearing it with reverence, patience, and submission: and then the sense is, that God would deliver out of whatsoever troubles he was or should be in, though they were ever so many; a certain number being put for an uncertain one, Psalm 34:19 , yea, seven there shall no... read more

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