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Job 5:1-27

Job, a servant of God

Job

Keith Simons

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Chapter 5

Eliphaz continues his first speech

The end of an evil man who was successful

v1 If anyone will answer you, Job, then call! See whether a holy person will reply!

v2 An evil man dies because he is angry. But a stupid man dies because he is jealous.

v3 I have seen an evil man who was successful. But his troubles came suddenly. v4 His children are in danger. They are in court, and nobody will help them. v5 Hungry people eat that man’s harvest. They even take the crops that grow between the weeds. And other people claim that evil man’s wealth.

Chapter 5

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See also Job 5:1-27 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    קְֽרָא ־נָ֭א הֲ יֵ֣שׁ עֹונֶ֑ךָּ וְ אֶל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ANSWERING A POSSIBLE OBJECTION ON JOB'S PART...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TURN: Or, look...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "CALL NOW, IS THERE ANYONE WHO WILL ANSWER YOU? AND TO WHICH OF THE HOLY ONES WILL YOU TURN?" Eliphaz contends that there is no one who can defend or protect Job, certainly not the holy ones or angel...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 Eliphaz here calls upon Job to answer his arguments. Were any of the saints or servants of God visited with such Divine judgments as Job, or did they ever behave like him under their sufferings?...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    JOB CHAPTER 5 Wrath foolish: the wicked miserable, JOB 5:1. Evil cometh not by chance; it is natural to our condition, JOB 5:6,7. This is our motive to prayer and trust in God, JOB 5:8; whose unsearch...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 5:1 Call H7121 (H8798) there H3426 answer H6030 (H8802) ones H6918 turn H6437 (H8799) and to which -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 5:1 Eliphaz asks if there are any creatures left on earth (ANYONE) or in heaven (THE HOLY ONES) to whom Job can appeal. It is a rhetorical question; he assumes he is right and doesn’t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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:...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Call — Call them all as it were by their names: will not every good man confirm what I say? If — Try if there be any one saint that will defend thee in these bold expostulations with God. Thou mayst f...

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