Job 5:1-7 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 5:1-5

A very warm dispute being begun between Job and his friends, Eliphaz here makes a fair motion to put the matter to a reference. In all debates perhaps the sooner this is done the better if the contenders cannot end it between themselves. So well assured is Eliphaz of the goodness of his own cause that he moves Job himself to choose the arbitrators (Job 5:1): Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; that is, 1. ?If there be any that suffer as thou sufferest. Canst thou produce an... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 5:6-16

Eliphaz, having touched Job in a very tender part, in mentioning both the loss of his estate and the death of his children as the just punishment of his sin, that he might not drive him to despair, here begins to encourage him, and puts him in a way to make himself easy. Now he very much changes his voice (Gal. 4:20), and speaks in the accents of kindness, as if he would atone for the hard words he had given him. I. He reminds him that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be attributed to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:1

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee ,.... That is, call upon God, which, if seriously, and not ironically spoken, was good advice; God is to be called upon, and especially in times of trouble; and invocation is to be made in faith, in sincerity, and with fervency, and to be accompanied with confession of sin, and repentance for it; and sooner or later God hears and answers those that call upon him; but Eliphaz suggests, that if Job did call upon him, it would be in vain, he would... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:2

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 divine and spiritual, and so foolish; which is the character of every natural man, and of God's people before conversion; and even of some professors, who are foolish virgins, and carry the lamp of a religious profession without the oil of grace; and such an one Eliphaz took Job to be, whom... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:3

I have seen the foolish taking root ,.... Such foolish wicked men as before described; those Eliphaz had observed to prosper in the world, and increase in riches, and even to have attained to a seeming stability and firmness, as if they would ever continue in such happy circumstances, see Jeremiah 12:2 ; by this he would obviate an objection that here might be raised and made against the assertion he was proving, that wicked men are afflicted and punished of God for their sins; whereas it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:4

His children are far from safety ,.... From outward safety, from evils and dangers, to which they are liable and exposed, not only from men, who hate them for their father's sake, who have been oppressors of them, or from God, who visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children; and from spiritual and eternal safety or "salvation", or from salvation in the world to come, as the Targum, they treading in their fathers steps, and imitating their actions: and they are crushed in the gate... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:5

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 fancies he has goods laid up for many years, to be enjoyed by him, yet he is taken away by death, and another eats what he has gathered; either his hungry heirs, that he has kept bare, and without the proper necessaries of life; or the poor whom he has oppressed, who, driven by hunger, seize upon... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:6

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust ,.... Or rather, "for" or "indeed" F25 כי "quia", Pagninus, Montanus; "etenim", Beza, Mercerus; "nam", Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt, Michaelis, Schultens; so Broughton; "sane", Bolducius. , this being a reason showing that wicked men are justly afflicted and punished; seeing their afflictions come not from the creatures, though they may be instruments, but from God for the sins of men: the word for affliction also signifies iniquity or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:7

Yet man is born unto trouble ,.... Or but F2 כי "sed", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius Schmidt, so Broughton. , after the negative follows the positive part of the assertion; before we have what is denied as the cause of affliction, here what it is affirmed to be, or what it is to be ascribed unto, even to the appointment of God for sin: to be born to it is to be appointed to it, as all men are appointed to death, and to everything previous and that leads on to it; and it... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 5:1

Call now, if there be any - This appears to be a strong irony. From whom among those whose foundations are in the dust, and who are crushed before the moth, canst thou expect succor? To which of the saints wilt thou turn? - To whom among the holy ones, ( קדשים kedoshim ), or among those who are equally dependent on Divine support with thyself, and can do no good but as influenced and directed by God, canst thou turn for help? Neither angel nor saint can help any man unless sent... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 5:1-5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 5:6-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 5:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 5:1

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