The Bible describes good spirits and evil spirits.
Good spirits come from God. They teach us the truth about God. God sends them to help us. Good spirits are probably the same as angels (God’s servants in heaven).
Evil spirits come from the devil. They are also called demons. Like the devil, demons are enemies of God.
Perhaps Eliphaz did see a spirit. But perhaps he imagined it. Most dreams mean nothing.
THEN A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE MY FACE - He does not intimate whether it was the spirit of a man, or an angel who thus appeared. The belief in such apparitions was common in the early ages, and indeed ha...
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 confirms the truth of his doctrine by telling of a vision which he had had. A revelation came upon him like a thief in the night (lit. a word stole upon me). His thoughts were raised to a high...
A SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9 :.. movement of air, caused by something unseen....
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...
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...
_then a spirit_ Rather, A BREATH. It was something which he felt; that which he saw follows in Job 4:16. The word _spirit_does not seem used in the Old Testament in the sense of an apparition....
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,...
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...
_FEAR CAME UPON ME, AND TREMBLING, WHICH MADE ALL MY BONES TO SHAKE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
A SPIRIT] rather, 'a breath.'...
A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE MY FACE. — It is vain to argue from this passage that spiritual essences are capable of being seen by the bodily eye, because, first of all, the language is highly figurative an...
וְ֭ רוּחַ עַל ־פָּנַ֣י יַחֲלֹ֑ף תְּ֝סַמֵּ֗ר ש
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...
“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...
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...
_Spirit: angel, or gentle breeze. (Calmet)_...
(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...
_A SPECTRAL VISITOR_ ‘A spirit passed before my face.’ Job 4:15 However we may explain it, there is no doubt that the real or fancied appearance of a human spirit, without the body, has, in all age...
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...
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...
THEN A SPIRIT PASSED BEFORE MY FACE,.... Which some interpret of a wind q, a blustering wind, that blew strong in his face; and so the Targum renders it, a stormy wind, such an one as Elijah perceived...
_Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:_ Ver. 15. _Then a spirit passed before my face_] Some render it a wind, as a messenger or forerunner of God near at hand, as 1 Kin...
_Then_ Hebrew, _And_, as the particle ו, _vau_, generally signifies. _A spirit passed before my face_ An angel in a visible shape, otherwise he could not have discerned it, nor would have been affrigh...
Then a spirit passed before my face, gliding or flitting before him like the apparition of an angel; THE HAIR OF MY FLESH STOOD UP, as in sudden, extreme terror;...
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...
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...
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....
THEN, Heb. _and_, or _for_, as this particle is oft used. So this was the reason of the foregoing thoughts and fear. A SPIRIT; an angel in some visible shape, otherwise he could not have discerned it,...
Job 4:15 spirit H7307 passed H2498 (H8799) face H6440 hair H8185 body H1320 up H5568 (H8762) a spirit -...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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
_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...
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...
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?...
Daniel 5:6; Hebrews 1:14; Hebrews 1:7; Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 21:3;...
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...
A spirit — An angel in visible shape, otherwise he could not have discerned it. Stood up — Through that excessive horror caused by so glorious, unusual, and terrible a presence....