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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Job 5 - Introduction

* Eliphaz urges that the sin of sinners in their ruin. (1-5) God is to be regarded in affliction. (6-16) The happy end of God's correction. (17-27)

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See also Job 5 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    4- 5. FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ. Ch. 3 as a whole means, Why is misfortune? We are now to hear from Job's friends, what the theology of the poet's age had to say on the matter. Eliphaz, who speaks first...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 5:1-27 93. What is the purpose of verse one? i.e., in the speech of Eliphaz? 94. Verse one may be an apologetic. How so? 95. Read Proverbs 14:30 and show how it relates...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 Uz (a-9) See Lamentations 4:21 . perfect (b-18) Complete, lacking nothing; cf. 2 Samuel 22:24 ....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO JOB 5 In this chapter Eliphaz goes on to prove, and further confirm and establish, what he had before asserted, that not good men, but wicked men only, are afflicted of God, at least...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 2484. B.C. 1520._ Sin occasions destruction, Job 5:1. Affliction is the common lot of mankind, Job 5:6; Job 5:7. In affliction we should fly to God, who is both able and willing to help,...

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