Job 5:2

2. For wrath כעשׂ signifies also grief. Passionate sorrow, such as Job had indulged, slays the foolish. 2 Corinthians 7:10. In the word for, Eliphaz resumes the leading thought of this discourse men reap what they sow. The passions of a man for instance, “envy,” (jealousy,) an envy that even looks wistfully at non-existence, (Job 3:3) are not only the ruin of a man, but they are the marks of “a fool,” אויל a word which he repeats in the next verse. “The violence of sin brings no help, but destruction, to itself, which is the nerve of all Eliphaz is saying: Job 5:6-7.” DAV. At the opening of the debate the implication against Job is of folly, manifesting itself through jealousy and passionate murmurings against God, rather than of crime. The latter is reserved for a direct charge, which the now courteous Eliphaz himself brings against Job at a later stage of the debate; chap. 22. Nevertheless, these words sink deep into the heart of Job, as is seen by his allusion (Job 6:2) to this very word wrath.