Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 5:2
For (b) wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
(b) Murmuring against God in afflictions increases the pain, and uttered man's folly.
For (b) wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
(b) Murmuring against God in afflictions increases the pain, and uttered man's folly.
Verse Job 5:2. _FOR WRATH KILLETH THE FOOLISH MAN_] _Foolish, silly_, and _simple_, are epithets given by _Solomon_ to sinners and transgressors of all kinds. Such parallelisms have afforded a presum...
FOR WRATH KILLETH THE FOOLISH MAN - That is, the wrath of God. The word foolish here is used as synonymous with wicked, because wickedness is supreme folly. The general proposition here is, that the w...
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...
SILLY. English. Anglo-Saxon _saelig_. inoffensive. Hebrew. _pathah =_ credulous. Compare Hosea 7:11....
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...
Job 5:1 asked, Will any one answer thy complaint? will complaining bring any deliverance? This verse gives the other side nay, rather, such murmuring betrays a mind "most incorrect to heaven," and suc...
FOR WRATH KILLETH, &C.— "It would surely well befit the fool, that impatience should be the murder of him; and the simple, that repining should bring him to his death." Heath....
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...
_FOR WRATH KILLETH THE FOOLISH MAN, AND ENVY SLAYETH THE SILLY ONE._ For - so far are you from profiting by your complaints. you only destroy yourself by justifying yourself and impatiently complaini...
5:2 envy (f-8) Or 'angry zeal.'...
WRATH] RV 'vexation.' ENVY] RV 'jealousy.' Such rash conduct brings destruction....
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....
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...
This is a clever verse. An evil man is angry because he hates God. So, God punishes the evil man for his behaviour. This is why the evil man dies. A stupid man might not hate God. This man does not...
כִּֽי ־לֶֽ֭ אֱוִיל יַהֲרָג ־כָּ֑עַשׂ וּ֝ פֹתֶ
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...
_Foolish and....little, here denote the wicked, as in the book of Proverbs. (Calmet) --- He accuses Job of anger (Menochius) and folly. (Calmet)_...
(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...
FOR WRATH KILLETH THE FOOLISH MAN,.... Not one that is an idiot, and destitute of common sense, and has no understanding in things natural and civil; but a wicked man, who has no knowledge of things d...
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. Ver. 2. _For wrath killeth the foolish man_] Such as thou art, Job; hot and hasty, pettish and passionate, fretting thyself to do ev...
_For wrath killeth the foolish man_, &c. That is, say some, a man's wrath and impatience prey upon his spirit, and so hasten his death. But the meaning seems rather to be, as Bishop Patrick observes,...
For wrath killeth the foolish man, grief slays the complaining fool, AND ENVY SLAYETH THE SILLY ONE, his own impatient repining brings destruction upon himself....
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...
ENVY: Or, indignation...
"FOR ANGER SLAYS THE FOOLISH MAN, AND JEALOUSY KILLS THE SIMPLE": Eliphaz may have been interpreting Job's lament in chapter three as being the anger of. foolish man and as. simple man's jealousy....
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?...
Either, 1. The wrath of God; or rather, 2. A man's own wrath, fretting, and impatience, and indignation; which kills men, partly, naturally, as it preys upon a man's spirit, and wasteth him inwardly,...
Job 5:2 wrath H3708 kills H2026 (H8799) man H191 envy H7068 slays H4191 (H8686) one H6601 (H880
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...
_And envy slayeth the silly one._ --Plutarch says of human passions that they are not evil in themselves, but good affections, which nature has furnished us withal, for great and noble uses. Right, re...
_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...
1 Samuel 18:8; 1 Samuel 18:9; 2 Timothy 3:6; Ecclesiastes 7:9; Gene
Killeth — A man's wrath, and impatience, preys upon his spirit, and so hastens his death; and provokes God to cut him off. The foolish — The rash and inconsiderate man, who does not weigh things impar...