Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 5:12
So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. — Or, so that their hands can do-nothing that is sound or of worth, can accomplish nothing effectual.
So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. — Or, so that their hands can do-nothing that is sound or of worth, can accomplish nothing effectual.
Verse Job 5:12. _HE DISAPPOINTETH THE DEVICES OF THE CRAFTY_] All these sayings refer to God's _particular providence_, by which he is ever working for the _good_, and counterworking the plots of the...
HE DISAPPOINTETH THE DEVICES OF THE CRAFTY - He foils them in their schemes, or makes their plans vain. This too was the result of close observation on the part of Eliphaz. He had seen instances where...
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...
ENTERPRISE. something stable. See note on "sound wisdom". Proverbs 2:7....
Job 5:10-11 describe how the stream of God's goodness acts when it moves directly, bearing up upon it the humble and those that mourn towards safety or salvation. These verses describe how the stream...
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...
4. My advicea) Return to God who rewards the righteous. (Job 5:8-16) TEXT 5:8-16 8 BUT AS FOR ME, I WOULD SEEK UNTO GOD, And unto God would I commit my cause; 9 Who doeth great things and unsearch...
_HE DISAPPOINTETH THE DEVICES OF THE CRAFTY, SO THAT THEIR HANDS CANNOT PERFORM THEIR ENTERPRISE._ ENTERPRISE - literally, realization. The Hebrew х_ TUWSHIYAAH_ (H8454)] combines in the one word the...
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....
These words are also true. But we can see Eliphaz’s mistake again. Eliphaz did not realise that some evil plans succeed. And Eliphaz thought that God would punish these evil people immediately....
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...
מֵ֭פֵר מַחְשְׁבֹ֣ות עֲרוּמִ֑ים וְֽ לֹא ־תַעֲשֶׂ֥ינָה...
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...
HE DISAPPOINTETH THE DEVICES OF THE CRAFTY,.... Or, "it disappointeth"; that is, the rain, as some Jewish commentators m interpret it, and the whole paragraph to this sense; the rain coming upon the e...
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise. Ver. 12. _He disappointeth the devices of the crafty_] He vacateth and rendereth ineffectual the cur...
_He disappointeth the devices of the crafty_ On the contrary, he defeats the craftiest designs of evil and subtle men to exalt themselves. They may place a great deal of confidence in their own abilit...
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, bringing all their schemes to naught, SO THAT THEIR HANDS CANNOT PERFORM THEIR ENTERPRISE, cannot realize what they wanted to accomplish, not bring about an...
ANSWERING A POSSIBLE OBJECTION ON JOB'S PART...
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...
CANNOT PERFORM THEIR ENTERPRISE: Or, cannot perform anything...
6-16 Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and...
OF THE CRAFTY; such as are cunning to work evil, and to cover it with fair pretences, as hypocrites use to do, and as Job's friends charged him with doing: God breaks the hopes and designs of such men...
Job 5:12 frustrates H6565 (H8688) devices H4284 crafty H6175 hands H3027 out H6213 (H8799) plans H8454 disap
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...
_He disappointeth the devices of the crafty._ THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE CRAFTY The word “crafty” may mean “prudent,” but usually it denotes such as are wickedly “cunning.” The meaning of the text 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...
Acts 12:11; Acts 23:12; Isaiah 19:3; Isaiah 37:36; Isaiah 8:10;...