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Verse Job 4:17. _SHALL MORTAL MAN_] אנוש _enosh_; Greek
βροτος. poor, weak, dying man.
_BE MORE JUST THAN GOD?_] Or, האנוש מאלוה יצדק _haenosh
meeloah_ _yitsdak_; shall poor, weak, sinful man be just...
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SHALL MORTAL MAN - Or, shall feeble man. The idea of “mortal” is
not necessarily implied in the word used here, אנושׁ
_'ĕnôsh_. It means man; and is usually applied to the lower
classes or ranks of...
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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 ...
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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...
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SHALL. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.
MORTAL MAN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14.
MAN. strong man. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14....
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_be more just than God_ This translation is possible. It is very
unnatural, however; for though, if a man were found complaining of
God's ways, the immediate inference might be that he was making
hims...
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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...
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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...
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DISCOURSE: 454
ELIPHAZ REPROVES JOB
Job 4:12. Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear
received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night,
when deep sleep falleth on men,...
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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...
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_SHALL MORTAL MAN BE MORE JUST THAN GOD? SHALL A MAN BE MORE PURE THAN
HIS MAKER?_
Mortal man ... a man. Two Hebrew words for man are used: the first
implying his feebleness х_ 'ªNOWSH _ (H582)], the...
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4:17 man (b-3) _ Enosh_ . see Psalms 8:4 . man (c-11) _ Geber_ . see
ch. 3.3....
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RM 'Shall mortal man be just before' (i.e. in the eyes of) 'God? Shall
a man be pure before his Maker?'...
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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...
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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...
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This verse is correct. God is the judge of everyone. A person may be
weak or strong. But everyone is guilty in God’s opinion. Everybody
refuses to obey God’s law (Romans 3:23; Psalms 53:3; Proverbs 20...
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SHALL MORTAL MAN BE MORE JUST THAN GOD? — This is the burden, or
refrain, upon which the friends of Job are for ever harping. It is
perfectly orthodox, but at the same time perfectly inadequate to dea...
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הַֽ֭ אֱנֹושׁ מֵ אֱלֹ֣והַ יִצְדָּ֑ק
אִ֥ם מֵ֝
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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Shall mortal man be more (l) just than God? shall a man be more pure
than his maker?
(l) He proves that if God punished the innocent, the creature would be
more just than the creator, which was blasp...
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Maker. It is thought that these were the words of the angel. If God
punish without cause, may not the sufferer esteem himself the better
of the two? You must therefore be guilty. (Calmet) --- Job woul...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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SHALL MORTAL MAN BE MORE JUST THAN GOD?.... Poor, weak, frail, dying
man, and so sinful, as his mortality shows, which is the effect of
sin; how should such a man be more righteous than God? who is so...
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Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than
his maker?
Ver. 17. _Shall mortal man_] Sorry sinful man, a very mixture and
hodge podge of dirt and sin, _Miser, aerumnis et pec...
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_Shall mortal man be more just than God?_ Shall man, _fallen man_, as
the word אנושׁ, _enosh_, here used, signifies, subject as he is
to diseases, troubles, and all those calamities which are the
nece...
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Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than
his Maker? The thought contained here is this, that whoever censures
the government of God, as Job had done in his complaint, ther...
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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...
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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...
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"CAN MANKIND BE JUST BEFORE GOD? CAN. MAN BE PURE BEFORE HIS MAKER?"
Supposedly this is what the "spirit" said to him in the above dream.
Eliphaz's argument appears to be that no man can stand pure be...
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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....
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The sense is, Thou, O Job, dost presumptuously accuse God for dealing
harshly and unrighteously with thee, in sending thee into the world
upon such hard terms, and punishing all innocent and righteous...
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Job 4:17 mortal H582 righteous H6663 (H8799) God H433 man H1397 pure
H2891 (H8799) Maker H6213 ...
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Job 4:13
I. Consider the spectre itself and its appearance. (1) It was produced
by a likeness of moral state. It was a time of thought. But this does
not convey all the idea of the passage. The Hebrew...
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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...
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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...
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_Shall a man he more pure than his Maker?_
MAN COMPARED WITH GOD
The sum of the assertion in this verse is, that no man can be more
pure and just than God. Let a man be never so just or sincere, yet...
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_In thoughts from the visions of the night._
THE SPECTRE’S QUESTION
Disguise it how we may, this is a ghost story.
I. Attempt to realise the spectre. Recollect that for every one of us
spirit has c...
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_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...
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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
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_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...
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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...
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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?...
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Ecclesiastes 7:20; Genesis 18:25; Jeremiah 12:1; Jeremiah 17:9; Job
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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...