Whose harvest the hungry eateth up. — The meaning becomes more pointed if we understand the wicked man himself as the subject whose harvest he shall eat famishing and have to take from among the thorns — there shall be so little, and that little choked with thorns. The word “robber” is perhaps a trap, or snare. Some of the old versions use other vowels, and read, “the thirsty swallow up,” making the parallelism complete.
Verse Job 5:5. _WHOSE HARVEST_] Their possessions, because acquired by unjust means, shall not be under the protection of God's providence; he shall abandon them to be pillaged and destroyed by the wa...
WHOSE HARVEST THE HUNGRY EATETH UP - That is, they are not permitted to enjoy the avails of their own labor. The harvest field is subject to the depredations of others, who contrive to possess themsel...
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 ...
JOB 5:1 contains the application of the principles just laid down. JOB 5:1. If the angels are imperfect, it is no use for Job to appeal to them as intercessors with God. Duhm, following Siegfried, re...
_even out of the thorns_ i. e. from within the enclosed field, protected by the thorn-hedge. The roving, hungry Bedawin carry their thievish depredations up to the very homestead and in-fields of the...
Job 5:1-7. Having laid this broad ground, Eliphaz proceeds to apply the principle to Job....
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...
These verses describe the desolation that befell the home and family of the man who hardened himself against God. The speaker falls here into the present tenses because, though he is describing an ins...
WHOSE HARVEST, &C.— Heath renders this verse thus: _Whose harvest the hunger-starved shall devour, and shall take it even from among the thorn-fences; and the thirsty shall swallow down their substanc...
3. The fate of the wicked (the foolish) is certain destruction. (Job 5:1-7) TEXT 5:1-7 5 Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou torn? 2 For vexation k...
_WHOSE HARVEST THE HUNGRY EATETH UP, AND TAKETH IT EVEN OUT OF THE THORNS, AND THE ROBBER SWALLOWETH UP THEIR SUBSTANCE._ Even out of the thorns - even when part of the grain remains hanging on the t...
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....
THE THORNS] the protecting thorn hedge. 6, 7. Affliction is not accidental, but is due to man's sinful nature. ALTHOUGH] RV 'for.'...
Eliphaz saw these events. So, Eliphaz thought, ‘God is punishing this man.’ And Eliphaz thought that this was fair. Eliphaz was sure that this evil man deserved these troubles. Perhaps Eliphaz was ri...
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...
אֲשֶׁ֤ר קְצִירֹ֨ו ׀ רָ֘עֵ֤ב יֹאכֵ֗ל וְ אֶֽל ־
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...
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the (g) thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. (g) Though there are only two or three ears left in the hedges, yet these w...
(1) В¶ Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? (2) For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. (3) I have seen the foolish ta...
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...
WHOSE HARVEST THE HUNGRY EATETH UP,.... This is to be understood of the foolish rich man before described, as taking root and flourishing; though he sows, and reaps and gathers in his harvest, and fan...
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. Ver. 5. _Whose harvest the hungry eateth up_] This is another root of the wicke...
_Whose harvest_ Which they confidently expected to reap after all their cost and labour; _The hungry eateth up_ The hungry Sabeans, or the poor, whose necessities make them greedy and ravenous to eat...
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, namely, that of the man whom the Lord cast down from the height of his prosperity, AND TAKETH IT EVEN OUT OF THE THORNS, the very last gleanings of the harvest of t...
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...
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?...
WHOSE HARVEST, which they now justly and confidently expect to reap, after all their cost and labour for that end, but are sadly and suddenly disappointed; which is a great aggravation of their misery...
Job 5:5 hungry H7457 up H398 (H8799) harvest H7105 Taking H3947 (H8799) even H413 thorns H6791 snare...
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...
_Call now, if there be any that will answer thee._ MORAL EVIL AS VIEWED BY AN ENLIGHTENED NATURAL RELIGIONIST How does Eliphaz appear to view sin? I. As excluding the sinner from the sympathy of the...
_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...
2 Chronicles 33:11; Deuteronomy 28:33; Deuteronomy 28:51; Hosea 8:7;...
Harvest — Which they confidently expect to reap after all their cost and labour, but are sadly and suddenly disappointed. The hungry — The hungry Sabeans eat it up. Thorns — Out of the fields: in spit...