Job 5:1

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee ; rather, call now ; is there any that will answer thee? What aid, that is, wilt thou invoke, if thou turnest away from God, and reproachest him? Thinkest thou to find any one in heaven or earth to answer to the call and come to thy assistance? Utterly vain is any such hope. And to which of the saints wilt thou turn? By "the saints" are meant in this place "the holy angels" (comp. Job 15:15 ; Psalms 89:7 ; Zechariah 14:5 ). The question, "To which wilt thou turn?" seems to imply that there was already in Job's time some knowledge of individual members of the angelic host, such as Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, etc; though we have no mention of any names of angels in Scripture until the time of Daniel ( Daniel 8:16 ; Daniel 9:21 ). That invocation of angels was an actual practice in Job's age is, however, scarcely proved by this passage.