Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Job 5:18
maketh sore and bindeth up Maketh sore in order to bind up, smiteth in order more perfectly to heal. If this physician induce disease, it is in order to procure a sounder health.
maketh sore and bindeth up Maketh sore in order to bind up, smiteth in order more perfectly to heal. If this physician induce disease, it is in order to procure a sounder health.
Verse Job 5:18. _FOR HE MAKETH SORE, AND BINDETH UP_. Thus nervously rendered by _Coverdale_, _For though he make a wounde, he giveth a_ _medicyne agayne; though he smyte, his honde maketh whole agayn...
FOR HE MAKETH SORE - That is, he afflicts. AND BINDETH UP - He heals. The phrase is taken from the custom of binding up a wound; see Isaiah 1:6, note; Isaiah 38:21, note. This was a common mode of hea...
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...
BINDETH UP... HIS HANDS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
b) Accept his chastening and enjoy his blessings. (Job 5:17-27) TEXT 5:17-27 17 BEHOLD, HAPPY IS THE MAN WHOM GOD CORRECTETH: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. 18 For he m...
_FOR HE MAKETH SORE, AND BINDETH UP: HE WOUNDETH, AND HIS HANDS MAKE WHOLE._ For - assigning a motive to induce Job to accept chastisement patiently-namely, God, who chastises us, can and will remove...
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...
God did not cause Job to suffer. The devil caused these problems....
HE MAKETH SORE, AND BINDETH UP. — The sentiment here expressed is one of those obvious ones which lose all their force from familiarity with them, but which come home sometimes in sorrow with a power...
כִּ֤י ה֣וּא יַכְאִ֣יב וְ יֶחְבָּ֑שׁ יִ֝מְחַ֗ץ _וְ_†
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...
(9) Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: (10) Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: (11) To set up on high those that be low; that...
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...
FOR HE MAKETH SORE, AND BINDETH UP,.... Or, "though he maketh sore, yet he bindeth up" d; as a surgeon, who makes a wound the sorer by probing and opening it, to let out the matter and make way for hi...
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. Ver. 18. _For he maketh sore, and bindeth up_] As a surgeon maketh an incision to let out the imposthumed matter, and then h...
_For he maketh sore_, &c. God's usual method is first to wound and then to heal, first to convince and then to comfort, first to humble and then to exalt. And he never makes a wound too great, too dee...
for He maketh sore and bindeth up, in order to heal the wound which He has inflicted, Hosea 6:1; Deuteronomy 32:39; HE WOUNDETH, AND HIS HANDS MAKE WHOLE. Cf Proverbs 3:11;...
ELIPHAZ ADMONISHES JOB TO BEAR HIS TRIAL PATIENTLY...
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...
The idea in this section is that if Job will confess and repent, God will bless him with healing, deliverance from famine, war, slander, violence, wild beasts, good crops, security, numerous descendan...
17-27 Eliphaz gives to Job a word of caution and exhortation: Despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. Call it a chastening, which comes from the Father's love, and is for the child's good; a...
BINDETH UP, to wit, the wounds, as good surgeons use to do when they have dressed them, in order to their healing. Compare PSALMS 147:3 EZEKIEL 34:4. The sense is, Though he hath seen it fit to wound...
Job 5:18 bruises H3510 (H8686) up H2280 (H8799) wounds H4272 (H8799) hands H3027 whole H7495 ...
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...
_Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth._ HAPPINESS “Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth.” There are comparatively few happy ones on this world of ours. What is happiness? The word is...
_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 2:6; Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 30:26; Psalms 147:3...
For he, &c. — God's usual method is, first to humble, and then to exalt. And he never makes a wound too great, too deep for his own cure....