George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 4:20
Understandeth. Hebrew, "regardeth." Septuagint, "can help himself." (Haydock) --- Man is justly punished because he does not reflect on what he ought. (Calmet)
Understandeth. Hebrew, "regardeth." Septuagint, "can help himself." (Haydock) --- Man is justly punished because he does not reflect on what he ought. (Calmet)
Verse Job 4:20. _THEY ARE DESTROYED FROM MORNING TO EVENING_] In almost every moment of time some human being comes into the world, and some one departs from it. Thus are they "destroyed from morning...
THEY ARE DESTROYED FROM MORNING TO EVENING - Margin, “beaten in pieces.” This is nearer to the Hebrew. The phrase “from morning to evening” means between the morning and the evening; that is, they liv...
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 ...
This is what the vision said. Translate as _mg.:_ Shall mortal man be just before God, shall a man be pure before his maker? Even the angels are fallible, how much more man, who inhabits a house of cl...
Third, surely instead of despairing and murmuring under his afflictions Job should follow a very different way. I, says Eliphaz, putting himself in Job's place, would seek unto God, all whose doings a...
_from morning to evening_ i. e. from a morning to an evening, in the course of a single day, cf. Isaiah 38:12. They are short-lived as ephemerids. _without any regarding_ i. e. without any one noticin...
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...
THEY ARE DESTROYED FROM MORNING TO EVENING, &C.— _From morning until evening they are destroyed; for want of discernment they perish together:_ Heath; who renders the next verse thus: _It not the exce...
2. The Visionno mortal can question God's just acts. (Job 4:12-21) TEXT 4:12-21 12 NOW A THING WAS SECRETLY BROUGHT TO ME, And mine ear received a whisper thereof. 13 In thoughts from the visions...
_THEY ARE DESTROYED FROM MORNING TO EVENING: THEY PERISH FOR EVER WITHOUT ANY REGARDING IT._ From morning to evening - unceasingly; or, better, between the morning and evening of one short day (so Ex...
THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ (JOB 4:5) Eliphaz is the principal and probably the oldest of the three friends: cp. Job 32:6. He is also the most considerate. But the complainings of Job in Job 3 had evi...
FROM MORNING TO EVENING] i.e. in a day....
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 4 ELIPHAZ’S FIRST SPEECH V...
This is wrong. God knows when a man dies. And God cares about his people (Psalms 116:16). God even notices when a little bird dies (Matthew 10:29-31). A dead man will live again. Death is not the end...
FROM MORNING TO EVENING. — The process is continual and unceasing, and when we consider the ravages of time on history, we may well say, as in Job 4:20, that “none regardeth it.” The next verse, howe...
מִ בֹּ֣קֶר לָ † עֶ֣רֶב יֻכַּ֑תּוּ מִ...
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...
“SHALL MORTAL MAN BE MORE JUST THAN GOD?” Job 4:1 The first cycle of speeches is opened by Eliphaz. It must be remembered that he and the two others believed that special suffering resulted from and...
Now begins the great controversy between Job and his friends, which occupies the major portion of the Book. This controversy moves in three cycles. The first, commencing here, runs through chapter fou...
They are destroyed from (o) morning to evening: they perish for ever (p) without any regarding [it]. (o) They see death continually before their eyes and daily approaching them. (p) No man for all t...
(12) В¶ Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. (13) In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, (14) Fear came upon me, and trem...
Eliphaz Relying on Experience I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week, in Chapter 3, Job was at the height of his deep, dark, depression! 1. In fact, he stated over and over again that he wished that he had n...
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...
THEY ARE DESTROYED FROM MORNING TO EVENING,.... That is, those that dwell in houses of clay, before described; the meaning is, that they are always exposed to death, and liable to it every day they li...
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it]. Ver. 20. _They are destroyed from morning to evening_] Heb. They are beaten to pieces, as in a mortar, wit...
_They are destroyed_ Bruised, or broken, as the same word, יכתו, _juccattu_, is rendered, Micah 1:7, where we read, _The graven images shall be broken to pieces; from morning to evening_ That is, eith...
Job having thus given way to his impatience, his friends thought it their duty to correct him. But instead of showing him in what respect his position was wrong, they proceed according to the assumpti...
They are destroyed, beaten into small pieces and thus returned to dust, FROM MORNING TO EVENING, their life being but an extremely short span of time; THEY PERISH FOREVER WITHOUT ANY REGARDING IT, soo...
ELIPHAZ: COMMENDATION TWISTED INTO REBUKE (vv.1-6) The three friends of Job could only think of God's justice in reference to Job's sufferings, and had no idea of God's love. Eliphaz no doubt though...
DESTROYED: _ Heb._ beaten in pieces...
12-21 Eliphaz relates a vision. When we are communing with our own hearts, and are still, Psalms 4:4, then is a time for the Holy Spirit to commune with us. This vision put him into very great fear....
FROM MORNING TO EVENING; either, 1. Speedily, between morning and evening, like the grass; they flourish in the morning, and in the evening are cut off, PSALMS 90:5,6. Or rather, 2. _All the day long_...
Job 4:20 pieces H3807 (H8714) morning H1242 evening H6153 perish H6 (H8799) forever H5331 regarding H7760 ...
CONTENTS: Eliphaz's theory in regard to Job's suffering. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: Those who pass rash and uncharitable censures upon their brethren, do Satan's work. We should be c...
Job 4:1. _Eliphaz answered,_ being the eldest, or the more eloquent. Job 4:3. _Thou hast instructed many._ The holy patriarchs were all preachers of righteousness on the sabbath days, &c, He admits t...
_And His angels He charged with folly._ FOLLY IN ANGELS “His angels He charged with folly.” Revelation conveys to us the highly interesting information that there is between the great Spirit and man,...
_Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said._ THE FIRST COLLOQUY At this point we pass into the poem proper. It opens with three colloquies between Job and his friends. In form these colloquies clos...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 4:12 Eliphaz reports that he had a vision (vv. Job 4:12) and then describes its content (vv. Job 4:17). The vision raises t
_COMMENCEMENT OF THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN JOB AND HIS THREE FRIENDS_ First Course of the Speeches. First Dialogue,—Eliphaz and Job FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ _Eliphaz censures Job for his impatience, an...
EXPOSITION Job having ended his complaint, Eliphaz the Temanite, the first-named of his three friends (Job 2:11), and perhaps the eldest of them, takes the word, and endeavours to answer him. After a...
So Job has made his complaint, and so Eliphaz, his friend who came to comfort him, he said, If we attempt to talk to you, will you be grieved? [But really after what you've said] who can keep silent?...
2 Chronicles 15:6; 2 Chronicles 21:20; Isaiah 38:12; Isaiah 38:13;...
THE PHILOSOPHY OF ELIPHAZ Job 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We are now approaching a part of the Book of Job that is most interesting. Job's three friends have at last broken their silence, and Eliphaz th...
Destroyed — All the day long, there is not a moment wherein man is not sinking towards death and corruption. Perish — In reference to this present worldly life, which when once lost is never recovered...