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CHAPTER IV
_Eliphaz answers; and accuses Job of impatience, and of_
_despondence in the time of adversity_, 1-6;
_asserts that no innocent man ever perished, and that the wicked_
_are afflicted fo...
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THEN ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE ANSWERED - See the notes at Job 2:11....
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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 is provoked to reply, in spite of his unwillingness, by the
tone of Job's speech, which seems to him altogether irreverent. He
wonders that Job, who had comforted so many others in trouble, sh...
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ANSWERED AND SAID. replied and said. The _idiom_ (App-6) requires that
the first verb (where nothing has been as yet said) must be rendered
according to the context: "spake", "prayed", "began", "concl...
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First, Eliphaz wonders that Job, who had comforted so many in trouble,
and who was a righteous man, should fall into such despair under his
afflictions, forgetting the great principle that the righteo...
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_ELIPHAZ REPROVES JOB, WHO, HAVING CONSOLED OTHERS IN ADVERSITY,
NEVERTHELESS DESPONDS HIMSELF. HE AFFIRMS, THAT IT WAS A THING UNHEARD
OF, FOR AN INNOCENT MAN TO PERISH; ON THE CONTRARY, THAT THE WIC...
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TEXT 4:1-11
4 THEN ANSWERED ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE, AND SAID,
2 If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?
But who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 Behold, thou hast instructed man...
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_THEN ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE ANSWERED AND SAID,_
Eliphaz - the mildest of Job's three accusers. The greatest of Job's
calamities, and his complaints against God, and the opinion that
calamities are pro...
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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...
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Job’s words upset Eliphaz. And Job’s troubles also upset Eliphaz.
Eliphaz simply believed that a good person should have a good life.
And Eliphaz thought that an evil person should have a terrible li...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
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CHAPTER 4
ELIPHAZ’S FIRST SPEECH
V...
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וַ֭ יַּעַן אֱלִיפַ֥ז הַֽ תֵּימָנִ֗י
וַ יֹּאמַ
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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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“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...
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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...
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Themanite. People of this city, about twelve miles from Petra, in
Arabia, were renowned for wisdom, Jeremias xlix. 7., and Baruch ii.
22. Pythagoras therefore visited this country. (St. Cyril, contra...
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CONTENTS
This chapter opens with the controversy between Job and his friends,
which runs through the whole book, until, at the close of it, GOD
settles the dispute. Eliphaz begins, and his expostulat...
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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...
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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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THEN ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE ANSWERED AND SAID. When Job was done cursing
his day, and had finished his doleful ditty on that subject, then
Eliphaz took the opportunity of speaking, not being able to bea...
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Ver. 1. _Then Eliphaz the Temanite_] Then, when Job had laid about
him in this sort; and, giving his tongue too much liberty to lash out,
had uttered word...
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_Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered_ Job's three friends reasoning on
the principles of an equal providence, and supposing that affliction
could happen only in the way of punishment, which necessarily...
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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...
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Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,...
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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...
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“Job's three companions-Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar had come to him
to sympathize with him and comfort him (Job 2:11). No doubt their
motives were pure, their intentions honest. Their weeklong silence...
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1-6 Satan undertook to prove Job a hypocrite by afflicting him; and
his friends concluded him to be one because he was so afflicted, and
showed impatience. This we must keep in mind if we would under...
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JOB CHAPTER 4 Eliphaz speaketh, though it will grieve Job, JOB 4:1,2.
Job had instructed and strengthened others in their sorrows, but now
fainted himself, JOB 4:3. Eliphaz reproacheth him with his co...
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ELIPHAZ
Eliphaz is a religious dogmatist whose dogmatism rests upon a
mysterious and remarkable experience (Job 4:12). Did a spirit ever
pass before Job's face? Did Job's hair of his flesh ever stand...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JOB 4:1 The Friends and Job: Can Job Be Right before God? The main
section of the book contains the dialogue between Job and the three
friends. It opens with Job’s initial lament (Job 3:1) and then
al...
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_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...
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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...
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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?...
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Job 15:1; Job 2:11; Job 22:1; Job 3:1; Job 3:2;...
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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...