Job 15:15 - Exposition

Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints ; rather, in his holy ones (see the Revised Version). The word "saint" has in course of time come to be so exclusively attached to holy men , that it can no longer be applied, without danger of being misunderstood, to angels. Eliphaz here, as in Job 5:1 , speaks not of holy men, but of the holy angels. Without taxing them with sin, he is strongly convinced of their imperfection—their defective wisdom ( Job 5:18 ), weakness, and untrustworthiness. His views are decidedly peculiar, and not borne out by the rest of Scripture. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. The material heavens are probably intended. That limpid liquid blue in which the human eye sees no stain or speck, to the Divine eye is tinged with uncleanness The idea is that neither animate nor inanimate nature contains any form of being that is absolutely without spot or blemish. In God alone is there perfect purity.