Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 5:6
The dust — It springs not up by merely natural causes, as herbs grow out of the earth: but from God. Eliphaz here begins to change his voice, as if he would atone for the hard words he had spoken.
The dust — It springs not up by merely natural causes, as herbs grow out of the earth: but from God. Eliphaz here begins to change his voice, as if he would atone for the hard words he had spoken.
Verse Job 5:6. _AFFLICTION COMETH NOT FORTH OF THE DUST_] If there were not an adequate cause, thou couldst not be so grievously afflicted. _SPRING OUT OF THE GROUND_] It is not from mere _natural_ c...
ALTHOUGH AFFLICTION COMETH NOT FORTH OF THE DUST - Margin, “or iniquity.” The marginal reading here has been inserted from the different meanings attached to the Hebrew word. That word (און _'âven_)...
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...
Job 5:1-7. Having laid this broad ground, Eliphaz proceeds to apply the principle to Job....
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...
_Although affliction_ Rather, FOR AFFLICTION. The foregoing examples, the general evil and imperfection of man, ch. Job 4:12 _seq_., and the particular rebelliousness of the fool, ch. Job 5:2 _seq_.,...
Eliphaz now sums up into an aphorism the great general principle which he seeks to illustrate in this section of his speech, ch. Job 4:12 to Job 5:7. It is that affliction is not accidental, nor a spo...
ALTHOUGH AFFLICTION COMETH NOT, &C.— The Hebrew is rather, _For iniquity cometh not forth out of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; i.e._ "As the wickedness of men does not proce...
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...
_ALTHOUGH AFFLICTION COMETH NOT FORTH OF THE DUST, NEITHER DOTH TROUBLE SPRING OUT OF THE GROUND;_ Although - rather, For truly (Umbreit). AFFLICTION COMETH NOT FORTH OF THE DUST - like a weed, of...
5:6 of (g-14) Lit. 'germinate from.'...
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....
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...
Here, Eliphaz linked his dream (Job 4:12-21) with his story (Job 5:1-5). If nobody is innocent, then everybody deserves troubles! So, Job could not be an innocent man. And Job deserved his troubles. E...
ALTHOUGH AFFLICTION.... — These two verses are confessedly very difficult. It is hard to see also the connection between sparks flying upwards and man’s being born to trouble. It seems to give better...
כִּ֤י ׀ לֹא ־יֵצֵ֣א מֵ עָפָ֣ר אָ֑וֶן וּ֝
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...
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, (h) neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; (h) That is, the earth is not the cause of barrenness and man's misery, but his own sin....
_Ground. If you had not sinned, you would not suffer. (Calmet)_...
(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...
ALTHOUGH AFFLICTION COMETH NOT FORTH OF THE DUST,.... Or rather, "for" or "indeed" y, this being a reason showing that wicked men are justly afflicted and punished; seeing their afflictions come not f...
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Ver. 6. _Although addiction cometh not forth of the dust_] It cometh not by fate or blind fortune, it...
_Although affliction cometh not forth_ out _of the dust_ The word און, _aven_, here rendered _affliction_, rather signifies _iniquity_, and the clause is literally, _Iniquity cometh not forth out of t...
Although affliction, every kind of misery and evil, COMETH NOT FORTH OF THE DUST, NEITHER DOTH TROUBLE SPRING OUT OF THE GROUND, that is, the misfortunes of men are not like accidental weedy growths;...
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...
AFFLICTION: Or, iniquity...
"FOR AFFLICTION DOES NOT COME FROM THE DUST, NOR DOES TROUBLE SPROUT FROM THE GROUND": The source of the troubles does not come from the ground but from within the man....
6-16 Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and...
ALTHOUGH, or _for_, or rather, _because_. So the following words may contain a reason why he should _seek unto God_, as he exhorts him, JOB 5:8. Or, _surely_, as that particle is oft used. And so it i...
Job 5:6 affliction H205 come H3318 (H8799) dust H6083 trouble H5999 spring H6779 (H8799) ground H127 affliction -
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...
_Affliction cometh not forth of the dust._ HUMAN SUFFERING “Affliction comet, h not forth of the dust, nor doth trouble spring out of the ground.” The liability of man to suffering is one of the most...
_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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 5:6 Returning to his agricultural comparison in Job 4:8, Eliphaz argues that AFFLICTION and TROUBLE do not grow out 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...
1 Samuel 6:9; Amos 3:6; Deuteronomy 32:27; Hebrews 12:15; Hosea 10:4;...