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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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BINDETH UP... HIS HANDS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
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The imagination of Eliphaz himself kindles as he contemplates the
universal goodness of God. And Job seems to him happy in being made
the object even of God's afflictions, for He afflicts only with th...
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_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....
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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...
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God did not cause Job to suffer. The devil caused these problems....
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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...
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כִּ֤י ה֣וּא יַכְאִ֣יב וְ יֶחְבָּ֑שׁ
יִ֝מְחַ֗ץ _וְ_†
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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ELIPHAZ ADMONISHES JOB TO BEAR HIS TRIAL PATIENTLY...
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 5:18 bruises H3510 (H8686) up H2280 (H8799) wounds H4272 (H8799)
hands H3027 whole H7495 ...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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:...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 2:6; Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 30:26; Psalms 147:3...
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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....