Job 4:17
What meaning of the job 4:17 in the Bible?
What does Job 4:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?"
What does Job 4:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?"
Verse Job 4:17. _SHALL MORTAL MAN_] אנוש _enosh_; Greek βροτος. poor, weak, dying man. _BE MORE JUST THAN GOD?_] Or, האנוש מאלוה יצדק _haenosh meeloah_ _yitsdak_; shall poor, weak, sinful man be just...
SHALL MORTAL MAN - Or, shall feeble man. The idea of “mortal” is not necessarily implied in the word used here, אנושׁ _'ĕnôsh_. It means man; and is usually applied to the lower classes or ranks of...
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)...
This is what the vision said. Translate as _mg.:_ Shall mortal man be just before God, shall a man be pure before his maker? Even the angels are fallible, how much more man, who inhabits a house of cl...
SHALL. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. MORTAL MAN. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14. MAN. strong man. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14....
Third, surely instead of despairing and murmuring under his afflictions Job should follow a very different way. I, says Eliphaz, putting himself in Job's place, would seek unto God, all whose doings a...
DISCOURSE: 454 ELIPHAZ REPROVES JOB Job 4:12. _Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on me...
2. The Visionno mortal can question God's just acts. (Job 4:12-21) TEXT 4:12-21 12 NOW A THING WAS SECRETLY BROUGHT TO ME, And mine ear received a whisper thereof. 13 In thoughts from the visions...
_SHALL MORTAL MAN BE MORE JUST THAN GOD? SHALL A MAN BE MORE PURE THAN HIS MAKER?_ Mortal man ... a man. Two Hebrew words for man are used: the first implying his feebleness х_ 'ªNOWSH _ (H582)], the...
4:17 man (b-3) _ Enosh_ . see Psalms 8:4 . man (c-11) _ Geber_ . see ch. 3.3....
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 ev...
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 4 ELIPHAZ’S FIRST SPEECH V...
SHALL MORTAL MAN BE MORE JUST THAN GOD? — This is the burden, or refrain, upon which the friends of Job are for ever harping. It is perfectly orthodox, but at the same time perfectly inadequate to dea...
הַֽ֭ אֱנֹושׁ מֵ אֱלֹ֣והַ יִצְדָּ֑ק אִ֥ם מֵ֝ עֹשֵׂ֗הוּ יִטְהַר ־גָּֽבֶר׃...
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...
“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...
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...
Shall mortal man be more (l) just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? (l) He proves that if God punished the innocent, the creature would be more just than the creator, which was blasp...
_Maker. It is thought that these were the words of the angel. If God punish without cause, may not the sufferer esteem himself the better of the two? You must therefore be guilty. (Calmet) --- Job wou...
(12) В¶ Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. (13) In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, (14) Fear came upon me, and trem...
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...
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...
SHALL MORTAL MAN BE MORE JUST THAN GOD?.... Poor, weak, frail, dying man, and so sinful, as his mortality shows, which is the effect of sin; how should such a man be more righteous than God? who is so...
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? Ver. 17. _Shall mortal man_] Sorry sinful man, a very mixture and hodge podge of dirt and sin, _Miser, aerumnis et pec...
_Shall mortal man be more just than God?_ Shall man, _fallen man_, as the word אנושׁ, _enosh_, here used, signifies, subject as he is to diseases, troubles, and all those calamities which are the nece...
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...
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 thoug...
"CAN MANKIND BE JUST BEFORE GOD? CAN. MAN BE PURE BEFORE HIS MAKER?" Supposedly this is what the "spirit" said to him in the above dream. Eliphaz's argument appears to be that no man can stand pure b...
12-21 Eliphaz relates a vision. When we are communing with our own hearts, and are still, Psalms 4:4, then is a time for the Holy Spirit to commune with us. This vision put him into very great fear....
The sense is, Thou, O Job, dost presumptuously accuse God for dealing harshly and unrighteously with thee, in sending thee into the world upon such hard terms, and punishing all innocent and righteous...
Job 4:17 mortal H582 righteous H6663 (H8799) God H433 man H1397 pure H2891 (H8799) Maker H6213 (H8802) Shall mortal - Job 8:3, Job 9:2, Job 35:2, Job 40:8; Genesis 18:25;...
Job 4:13 I. Consider the spectre itself and its appearance. (1) It was produced by a likeness of moral state. It was a time of thought. But this does not convey all the idea of the passage. The Hebre...
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...
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...
_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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 4:12 Eliphaz reports that he had a vision (vv. Job 4:12) and then describes its content (vv. Job 4:17). The vision raises the question, CAN MORTAL MAN BE IN THE RIGHT BEFORE GOD? Eliph...
_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...
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...
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?...
Ecclesiastes 7:20; Genesis 18:25; Jeremiah 12:1; Jeremiah 17:9; Job 14:4; Job 15:14; Job 25:4; Job 35:2; Job 40:8; Job 8:3;...
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...
More just — Pretend more strictly to observe the laws of justice? Shall (enosh) mortal, miserable man (so the word signifies) be thus insolent? Nay, shall geber, the strongest and most eminent man, st...