His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
His children ... crushed in the gate - a judicial formula. The gate was the place of judgment and of other public proceedings (Job 31:21; Psalms 127:5; Proverbs 22:22; Genesis 23:10; Deuteronomy 21:19). Such propyloea have been found in the Assyrian remains. Eliphaz obliquely alludes to the calamity which cut off Job's children.
Verse Job 5:4. _HIS CHILDREN ARE FAR FROM SAFETY_] His posterity shall not continue in prosperity. _Ill gotten, ill spent_; whatever is got by wrong must have God's curse on it. _THEY ARE CRUSHED IN...
HIS CHILDREN ARE FAR FROM SAFETY - That is, this is soon manifest by their being cut off or subjected to calamity. The object of Eliphaz is, to state the result of his own observation, and to show how...
CHAPTER S 4-5 THE FIRST ADDRESS OF ELIPHAZ _ 1. He rebukes Job (Job 4:1)_ 2. The righteous are not cast off (Job 4:6) 3. An awe-inspiring vision (Job 4:12) 4. Experience and exhortation ...
JOB 5:1 contains the application of the principles just laid down. JOB 5:1. If the angels are imperfect, it is no use for Job to appeal to them as intercessors with God. Duhm, following Siegfried, re...
CHILDREN. sons....
These verses describe the desolation that befell the home and family of the man who hardened himself against God. The speaker falls here into the present tenses because, though he is describing an ins...
_they are crushed in the gate_ The gate of the town is the seat of the Oriental court of law, where justice is administered, ch. Job 29:7; Job 31:21; Psalms 127:5. The words _are crushed_might be reci...
Turning to Job's murmurs against heaven, Eliphaz points to the unapproachable purity of God and the imperfection of all creatures, and warns Job against such complaints Having expressed his wonder th...
Job 5:1-7. Having laid this broad ground, Eliphaz proceeds to apply the principle to Job....
IN THE GATE— _In the tempest._ See ch. Job 9:17 and Parkhurst on the word שׁער _shangar,_ 9....
3. The fate of the wicked (the foolish) is certain destruction. (Job 5:1-7) TEXT 5:1-7 5 Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou torn? 2 For vexation k...
THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ (CONCLUDED) 1-5. Eliphaz warns Job that to show a resentful temper at God's dispensations is folly, and that fools never prosper....
CRUSHED IN THE GATE] the gate of the city, where justice was administered: cp. Psalms 127:5. There are none to support their cause or to influence the judge....
Eliphaz saw these events. So, Eliphaz thought, ‘God is punishing this man.’ And Eliphaz thought that this was fair. Eliphaz was sure that this evil man deserved these troubles. Perhaps Eliphaz was ri...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 5 ELIPHAZ CONTINUES HIS FIR...
THEY ARE CRUSHED. — Rather, perhaps, _they crush one another._ Their internal rivalries and dissensions bring them to ruin. They exemplify the house divided against itself....
יִרְחֲק֣וּ בָנָ֣יו מִ יֶּ֑שַׁע וְ יִֽדַּכְּא֥וּ...
VII. THE THINGS ELIPHAZ HAD SEEN Job 4:1; Job 5:1 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE ideas of sin and suffering against which the poem of Job was written come now dramatically into view. The belief of the three fr...
THE BENEFITS OF CHASTISEMENT Job 5:1 In this chapter Eliphaz closes his first speech. He had already suggested that Job's sufferings were the result of some secret sin. It could not be otherwise acco...
Proceeding, Eliphaz asked Job to whom he would appeal, to which of the holy ones, that is, as against the truth which he had declared, or in defense of himself. In the light of evident guilt, all vexa...
His (e) children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the (f) gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them]. (e) Though God sometimes allows the father's to pass in this world, yet his judgm...
_Gate, in judgment. (Menochius)_...
(1) В¶ Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? (2) For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. (3) I have seen the foolish ta...
Eliphaz Relying on Experience I. INTRODUCTION F. Job 5:1-3 (NKJV) "Call out now; Is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn? 2 For wrath kills a foolish man, A...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
HIS CHILDREN ARE FAR FROM SAFETY,.... From outward safety, from evils and dangers, to which they are liable and exposed, not only from men, who hate them for their father's sake, who have been oppress...
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them]. Ver. 4. _His children are far from safety_] This is one principal root of wicked men, viz...
_His children_ Whose greatness he designed in all his enterprises, supposing his family would be established for ever; _are far from safety_ Are exposed to dangers and calamities, and can neither pres...
His children are far from safety, they were without help, when the curse of God descended upon him, AND THEY ARE CRUSHED IN THE GATE, NEITHER IS THERE ANY TO DELIVER THEM, the reference being to the g...
ANSWERING A POSSIBLE OBJECTION ON JOB'S PART...
FURTHER OBSERVATIONS BY ELIPHAZ (vv.1-27) Eliphaz suggests to Job that he call out to creatures for help, even to holy ones - holy men or angels, - and see if anyone will answer him (v.1). He is imp...
"HIS SONS ARE FAR FROM SAFETY": Here he is pouring salt into Job's open wounds by basically blaming Job for the death of his children. The problem with his argument is the misconception that because....
1-5 Eliphaz here calls upon Job to answer his arguments. Were any of the saints or servants of God visited with such Divine judgments as Job, or did they ever behave like him under their sufferings?...
HIS CHILDREN; whose greatness and happiness he designed in all his enterprises, supposing that his family was and would be established for ever. ARE FAR FROM SAFETY, i.e. are exposed to great dangers...
Job 5:4 sons H1121 far H7368 (H8799) safety H3468 crushed H1792 (H8691) gate H8179 deliverer H5337 ...
CONTENTS: Eliphaz's discourse continued. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: Even Satan may be God's servant to make better saints of us, the blow at the outward man proving the greatest bles...
Job 5:1. _To which of the saints wilt thou turn?_ Men in anguish look every way for help, but how can either angel or departed spirit of the just help us, without a special command from heaven. Men sh...
_Call now, if there be any that will answer thee._ MORAL EVIL AS VIEWED BY AN ENLIGHTENED NATURAL RELIGIONIST How does Eliphaz appear to view sin? I. As excluding the sinner from the sympathy of the...
_THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ.—CONTINUED_ I. Application of the Vision (Job 5:1). “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints (‘holy ones’—probably _angels_, as Job 15:...
EXPOSITION JOB 5:1 Eliphaz, having narrated his vision, and rehearsed the words which the spirit spoke in his ear, continues in his own person, first (Job 5:1) covertly reproaching Job, and then (ver...
Call now (Job 5:1), Eliphaz is saying to Job. if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will thou turn? (Job 5:1) Now it would seem that maybe in those days there were those...
Exodus 20:5; Job 1:19; Job 10:7; Job 18:16; Job 27:14;...
Children — Whose greatness he designed in all his enterprizes, supposing his family would be established for ever. Safely — Are exposed to dangers and calamities, and can neither preserve themselves,...