George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 15:14
Just. Few are free from all spot; but venial sins do not hinder a man from being styled truly virtuous. (Worthington)
Just. Few are free from all spot; but venial sins do not hinder a man from being styled truly virtuous. (Worthington)
Verse Job 15:14. _WHAT IS MAN, THAT HE SHOULD BE CLEAN?_] מה אנוש _mah_ _enosh_; what is _weak, sickly, dying, miserable_ man, that he should be clean? This is the import of the original word _enosh_....
WHAT IS MAN THAT HE SHOULD BE CLEAN? - The object of Eliphaz in this is to overturn the positions of Job that he was righteous, and had been punished beyond his deserts. He had before maintained Job 4...
THE SECOND SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES CHAPTER 15 Eliphaz's Second Address _ 1. Tells Job that he is self-condemned (Job 15:1)_ 2. Charges him with pride (Job 15:7) 3. The wicked and their lot (Job 15...
JOB 15:2 is a polemic against Job's arrogance and pretence of wisdom. Job's words are empty and violent (Job 15:2 f.). He does away with all religion (Job 15:4) and breaks the reverential stillness, w...
MAN. a mortal. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. See note on Job 14:1. CLEAN. pure....
Eliphaz rebukes Job's contemptuous treatment of the opinions of his friends, and his irreverence towards God First, starting with Job's claim to a wisdom beyond that of his friends (ch. Job 12:3; Job...
Turning from Job's arrogant claims to superior wisdom Eliphaz must rebuke his violent and irreverent behaviour towards God: What is man that he should be clean?...
What is there to justify such passion thy pretended innocence? What is man that he should be clean? cf. ch. Job 14:1. Eliphaz recurs again to his principles formerly enunciated, ch. Job 4:17 _seq_., f...
II. CRISIS IN COMMUNICATION OR THE MIRACLE OF DIALOGUE? (Job 15:1, Job 21:34). A. THE GOODNESS OF GOD AND THE FATE OF THE WICKEDELIPHAZ'S REBUTTAL (Job 15:1-35). 1. Job's speech and conduct are pe...
_WHAT IS MAN, THAT HE SHOULD BE CLEAN? AND HE WHICH IS BORN OF A WOMAN, THAT HE SHOULD BE RIGHTEOUS?_ Eliphaz repeats the revelation (Job 4:17) in substances but using Job's own words (Job 14:1, note...
15:14 man, (b-3) _ Enosh_ . see Psalms 8:4 ....
Eliphaz uses Job's own words (Job 14:4) to convict him of his sinfulness....
THE SECOND SERIES OF SPEECHES (JOB 15-21) The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his sturdy maintenance of his innocence, and the fearlessness with which in his anguish he has...
Eliphaz repeated the same lesson as in Job 4:17. He said that nobody is perfect. So he thought that Job must be evil too. Eliphaz was right to say that nobody is perfect. We must all confess our evil...
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 15 ELIPHAZ’S SECOND SPEECH...
WHAT is MAN? — This is the ceaseless burden.·(See Job 4:17; Job 9:2; Job 25:4, &c.)...
מָֽה ־אֱנֹ֥ושׁ כִּֽי ־יִזְכֶּ֑ה וְ כִֽי ־יִ֝צ
XIII. THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE Job 15:1 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology and the facts of human life. No positive reconciliation is effected a...
“THE HEAVENS ARE NOT CLEAN” Job 15:1 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by _rebuking_ Job, Job 15:1. He complains that the words of Job proved him to be unwise, J...
Here the second cycle of argument begins, and again Eliphaz is the first speaker. It is at once evident that Job's answers had wounded him. He first criticized Job's manner, charging him with using me...
What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should (i) be righteous? (i) His purpose is to prove that Job, as an unjust man and a hypocrite, is punished for his...
(14) What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? (15) Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. (1...
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...
WHAT [IS] MAN, THAT HE SHOULD BE CLEAN?.... Frail, feeble, mortal man, or woeful man, as Mr. Broughton renders it; since he is sinful, whereby he is become such a weak and dying creature: this questio...
What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Ver. 14. _What is man, that he should be clean?_] Eliphaz hath now done chiding (it is but time...
_What is man?_ Hebrew, אנושׁ, _enosh, frail, weak, imperfect man; that he should be clean?_ That is, that he should pretend to be so; or, that any should expect to find him so: _and he that is born of...
What is man that he should be clean, and he which is born of a woman that he should be righteous? Eliphaz here takes up a point which he had broached in his first discourse, 4:17-20, and which Job him...
ELIPHAZ ACCUSES JOB OF IMPIETY...
ELIPHAZ CLAIMS JOB CONDEMNS HIMSELF (vv.1-6) This response of Eliphaz lacks the measure of self-restraint he had shown in his first address. He had first at least spoken with a measure of considerat...
"Sensing that Job did not assimilate what Eliphaz had said about man in his first talk, he repeated himself. Weak man is impure; and born of woman; he is unrighteous (Job 4:17). God does not trust His...
1-16 Eliphaz begins a second attack upon Job, instead of being softened by his complaints. He unjustly charges Job with casting off the fear of God, and all regard to him, and restraining prayer. See...
WHAT IS MAN, Heb. _frail_, or _sick_, or _wretched man_ ? his mean original and corrupt nature showeth him to be unclean. WHICH IS BORN OF A WOMAN; from whom he derives infirmity, and corruption, and...
Job 15:14 man H582 pure H2135 (H8799) born H3205 (H8803) woman H802 righteous H6663 (H8799)...
CONTENTS: Eliphaz's theory about Job, charging him with foolishly justifying himself. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz. CONCLUSION: Those speeches which do no good, being of no service either to God, o...
Job 15:2. _Fill his belly with the east wind;_ a hot dry wind, the least favourable to vegetation. This is an angry figure of speech, equivalent to a declaration that Job's defence was a mere storm of...
_What is man that he should be clean?_ ORIGINAL SIN Of all the truths acknowledged and assumed in this ancient book, we find none more clearly or readily confessed than that of man’s original sin and...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:1 Second Cycle. The arguments of each participant harden in the second round of speeches. Once again the three friends say that Job is suffering because of his sin. Job refuses to a...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:14 Eliphaz revisits the central questions of his first response (see Job 4:17): if God does not trust fully even his heavenly servants, how can Job, a mere man, continue to claim in...
_SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ_ Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably irritated at his little success with Job, who rejected his friend’s counse...
EXPOSITION The second colloquy between Job and his friends is, like the first (ch. 3-14.), one in which all of them take part, and the same order of speakers is maintained. Job answers each speaker in...
Now at this point, Eliphaz, who was the first friend of Job's to speak, speaks for the second time. And he claims that he is older than Job, more experienced than Job, and thus Job ought to listen to...
1 John 1:8; 1 Kings 8:46; 2 Chronicles 6:36; Ecclesiastes 7:20;...