Job 5:1-27 BSB

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:2

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, and so hastens his death, of which see Proverbs 14:30; Proverbs 17:22; partly, morally, as it prompts him to those rash, and furious, and wicked actions which may procure his death; and partly, meritoriously, as it provoketh God to cut him off, and to bring upon him those further and severe strokes... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:3

I have oft observed it in my experience. Having severely rebuked Job for his transports of passion and intemperate speeches against God, he now returns to his former argument, and proves that such dreadful and destructive judgments of God do not befall the righteous, but the wicked, as he observed, Job 4:7,Job 4:8. Withal, he answers an objection concerning the present and seeming prosperity of the wicked, which he confesseth that he himself had sometimes observed. The foolish, i. e. the wicked... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:4

His children; whose greatness and happiness he designed in all his enterprises, supposing that his family was and would be established for ever. Are far from safety, i.e. are exposed to great dangers and calamities in this life, and can neither preserve themselves, nor the great inheritance which their fathers got and left for them. Thus to be far from peace, Lamentations 3:17, is to be involved in desperate troubles. In the gate, i.e. in the place of judicature; to which they are brought for... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:5

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. The hungry, i.e. the poor, whose necessities make them greedy and ravenous to eat it all up; and from whom he can never recover it, nor any thing in recompence of it. Out of the thorns, i.e. out of the fields, notwithstanding the strong thorn hedges wherewith it is enclosed and fortified, and all... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:6

Although, or for, or rather, because. So the following words may contain a reason why he should seek unto God, as he exhorts him, Job 5:8. Or, surely, as that particle is oft used. And so it is a note of his proceeding to another argument. Affliction, or iniquity, as this word oft signifies; and of this the following sentence is true. And so this first branch speaks of sin, and the next branch of trouble, which is the fruit of sin; and both sin and trouble are said to come from the same spring.... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:7

i.e. He is so commonly exposed to many and various troubles, as if he were born to no other end. Affliction is become in some sort natural and proper to man, and it is, together with sin, transmitted from parents to children, as their most certain and constant inheritance; God having allotted this portion to mankind for their sins. And therefore thou takest a wrong course in complaining so bitterly of that which thou shouldst patiently bear, as the common lot of mankind; and thy right method is... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:8

If I were in thy condition; and therefore I would advise thee to the same course. Seek unto God, to wit, by prayer, and humiliation, and submission, imploring his pardon, and favour, and help, and not repine at him, and accuse his providence, as thou dost. Would I commit my cause, i.e. commend my afflicted condition to him by fervent prayer, and resign myself and all my concerns to him, and humbly hope for relief from him. Or, propound my matters, i.e. make known my afflictions and requests to... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:9

Here Eliphaz enters upon a discourse of the infinite perfection and greatness of God’s nature and works; which he doth partly as an argument to enforce the exhortation to seek and commit his cause to God, Job 5:8, because God was infinitely able, either to punish him yet far worse, if he continued to provoke him, or to raise him from the dust, if he humbly addressed himself to him; and partly that by a true representation of God’s excellency and glory, and of that vast disproportion which was... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:10

He beginneth with this ordinary and obvious work of God, in which he implies that there is something unsearchable and wonderful, as indeed there is in the rise of it from the earth, in the strange hanging of that heavy body in the air, and in the distribution of it as God sees fit, Amos 4:7; and how much more in the secret counsels and hidden paths of Divine Providence, which Job took the liberty to censure! Waters; either fountains and rivers, which is another great and wonderful work of God;... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:11

These words contain either, 1. A declaration of God’s end in giving rain, which is to enrich those who were poor, or mourning for the drought, by sending rain, and making their lands fruitful; or rather, 2. Another example of God’s great and wonderful works. And the infinitive verb is here put for the indicative, he setteth up, &c., which is very frequent in the Hebrew, as Psalms 56:13; Zechariah 3:4; Zechariah 12:10. He giveth this instance to comfort and encourage Job to seek to God,... read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:4

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:5

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:6

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:7

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:8

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:10

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 5:11

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