Job 5:16

16. So the poor hath hope As the poor are God’s special care, Heaven’s proteges, it is particularly said of them, that they have hope. Eliphaz sublimely declares the care of the poor, the lowly, and the suffering ones of this world to be the ulterior end of the natural and moral worlds; to this end converge all the arrangements of nature and of grace, with all their criss-cross and apparently contradictory motions. In harmony with our thought is the pleasing one of Whewell, ( Bridgewater Tr., chap. 3,) who “considers the whole mass of the earth, from pole to pole and from center to circumference, as employed in keeping a snow-drop in the position most suited to the promotion of its vegetable health.” The verse is a grand climactical close to this sublime description of God. Comp. Luke 7:22, with a similar climax “The poor have the gospel preached to them.”