Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 5:8
I would — If I were in thy condition. Seek — By prayer, and humiliation, and submission, imploring his pardon, and favour.
I would — If I were in thy condition. Seek — By prayer, and humiliation, and submission, imploring his pardon, and favour.
Verse Job 5:8. _I WOULD SEEK UNTO GOD_] Were I in your place, instead of wasting my time, and irritating my soul with useless complaints, I would apply to my Maker, and, if conscious of my innocence,...
I WOULD SEEK UNTO GOD - Our translators have omitted here the adversative particle אוּלם _'ûlâm_ but, yet, nevertheless, and have thus marred the connection. The meaning of Eliphaz, I take to be, “t...
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 ...
Eliphaz advises Job to accept the Divine discipline so that God may again show Himself gracious. As for me, instead of being impatient like a fool, I would seek unto God (_cf._ Job 1:21; Job 2:10). Jo...
I WOULD SEEK. The pronoun "I" is emphatic, and stands in contrast with "thou" in Job 5:1....
_I would seek unto God_ Rather, BUT I would seek; i. e. in humility, and for help and light....
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...
Eliphaz, in Job's place, would seek unto God, all whose ways are marked by one purpose, to do good, and whose chastisements, therefore, but open the way to a richer blessing The passage attaches itse...
I WOULD SEEK UNTO GOD, &C.— i.e. (For Eliphaz had precluded him from all attempts to justify himself in the foregoing part of his advice.) "I would apply to God with a full and free confession of thos...
4. My advicea) Return to God who rewards the righteous. (Job 5:8-16) TEXT 5:8-16 8 BUT AS FOR ME, I WOULD SEEK UNTO GOD, And unto God would I commit my cause; 9 Who doeth great things and unsearch...
_I WOULD SEEK UNTO GOD, AND UNTO GOD WOULD I COMMIT MY CAUSE:_ I would seek unto God. Therefore (as affliction is ordered by God on account of sin) if I were in your place. (Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 9:13;...
1] RV 'As for me, I.' Eliphaz, instead of murmuring, would leave his case in the hands of One who is both great and wise....
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...
This is true. These words are wonderful words. Verse 11 is like James 4:10 and Luke 1:46-55....
אוּלָ֗ם אֲ֭נִי אֶדְרֹ֣שׁ אֶל ־אֵ֑ל וְ אֶל
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...
I would seek unto (k) God, and unto God would I commit my cause: (k) If I suffered as you do, I would seek God....
_I will, or if I were in your place, I would sue for pardon. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "I would seek unto God," (Haydock) under affliction. (Menochius)_...
(8) I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: This advice is truly scriptural; though it is rather to be feared, when viewed in connexion with what Eliphaz said before and after, it...
_THINGS UNSEARCHABLE_ ‘I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number.’ Job 5:8 I. HOW MANY ‘UNSEARCHABLE T...
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...
I WOULD SEEK UNTO GOD,.... Or "truly" e, "certainly, doubtless, I do seek unto God", verily I do so; for so the words are introduced in the original text, and express what Eliphaz had done when under...
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: Ver. 8. _Surely I would seek unto God_] Not let fly at him, as thou hast done, cursing thy birthday, and wishing thyself out of the world....
_I would seek unto God_, &c. If I were in thy condition, instead of accusing the dispensations of Divine Providence, and repining under them, I would apply to God, by a full and free confession of tho...
I, that is, Eliphaz on his part, WOULD SEEK UNTO GOD, AND UNTO GOD WOULD I COMMIT MY CAUSE, leaving everything in the hands of the most high God, and not in any way impatient of His government,...
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...
"BUT AS FOR ME,. WOULD SEEK GOD, AND. WOULD PLACE MY CAUSE BEFORE GOD": From the context this does not appear to be an encouragement to seek God for comfort, but rather to repent. "If. were in your sh...
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...
If I were in thy condition; and therefore I would advise thee to the same course. SEEK UNTO GOD, to wit, by prayer, and humiliation, and submission, imploring his pardon, and favour, and help, and not...
Job 5:8 seek H199 H1875 (H8799) God H410 God H430 commit H7760 (H8799) cause H1700 seek -...
Job 5:8 The truth which was here held up before Job is an inspiring one. We have to do with a God who does unsearchably marvellous things, not a few, but many, things, literally numberless. I. Why th...
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...
_I would seek unto God._ MARVELS AND PRAYER Nothing could be better than the counsel proffered in the text, nothing more certain than the grounds on which he rests his counsel. To seek unto God, and...
_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 Peter 2:23; 1 Peter 4:19; 2 Chronicles 33:12; 2 Chronicles 33:13;...