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Job 15
Eliphaz reproves Job for justifying himself, ver. 1-13.
Persuades him to humble himself before God, ver. 14-16.
Describes the misery of wicked men, ver. 17-35.
Verse 2. Fill - Satisfy his mind and conscience. East wind - With
discourses not only unprofitable, but also pernicious both to
himself and others; as the east-wind was in those parts.
Verse 4. Castest off - Hebrew. thou makes void fear; the fear of God,
piety and religion, by thy unworthy speeches of God, and by those
false and pernicious principles, that God makes no difference
between good and bad in the course of his providence, but equally
prospers or afflicts both: thou dost that which tends to the
subversion of the fear and worship of God. Restrainest prayer -
Thou dost by thy words and principles, as far as in thee lies,
banish prayer out of the world, by making it useless and
unprofitable to men.
Verse 5. Uttereth - Thy words discover the naughtiness of thy heart.
Crafty - Thou speakest wickedly, and craftily: thou coverest thy
impious principles with fair pretenses of piety.
Verse 11. Are - Are those comforts, which we have propounded to thee
on condition of thy repentance, small and contemptible in thine
eyes? Secret - Hast thou any secret and peculiar way of comfort
which is unknown to us, and to all other men?
Verse 12. Why - Why dost thou suffer thyself to be transported by the
pride of thine heart, to use such unworthy expressions? Wink -
Why dost thou look with such an angry, supercilious, and
disdainful look?
Verse 13. Against God - Eliphaz here does in effect give the cause on
Satan's side, and affirms that Job had done as he said he would,
Curse God to his face.
Verse 15. Saints - In his angels, chap. iv, 18, who are called his saints or
holy ones, Deut. xxxiii, 2 Psalm ciii, 20. Who though they were
created holy, yet many of them fell. Heavens - The angels that
dwell in heaven; heaven being put for its inhabitants. None of
these are pure, simply and perfectly, and comparatively to God.
The angels are pure from corruption, but not from imperfection.
Verse 16. Who - Who besides his natural proneness to sin, has
contracted habits of sinning; and sins as freely, as greedily and
delightfully, as men, especially in those hot countries, drink up
water.
Verse 17. I - I will prove what I have affirmed, that such strokes as thine
are peculiar to hypocrites. Seen - I speak not by hear-say, but
from my own experience.
Verse 18. Hid - They judged it to be so certain and important a truth,
that they would not conceal it in their own breasts.
Verse 19. To whom - By the gracious gift of God: this he alleges to
make their testimony more considerable, because these were no
obscure men, but the most worthy and famous men in their ages;
and to confute what Job had said, chap. ix, 24, that the earth was
given into the hand of the wicked. By the earth he means the
dominion and possession of it. Stranger - No person of a strange
nation and disposition, or religion. Passed - Through their land, so
as to disturb, or spoil them, as the Sabeans and Chaldeans did
thee. God watched over those holy men so, that no enemy could
invade them; and so he would have done over thee, if thou hadst
been such an one.
Verse 20. Pain - Lives a life of care, and fear, and grief, by reason of
God's wrath, the torments of his own mind, and his outward
calamities. Hidden - He knows not how short the time of his life
is, and therefore lives in continual fear of losing it. Oppressor - To
the wicked man: he names this one sort of them, because he
supposed Job to be guilty of this sin, in opposition of what Job
had affirmed of the safety of such persons, chap. xii, 6, and
because such are apt to promise themselves a longer and happier
life than other men.
Verse 21. A sound - Even when he feels no evil, he is tormented with
perpetual fears. Come upon him - Suddenly and unexpectedly.
Verse 22. Believeth not - When he falls into trouble, he despairs of
deliverance, by reason of his guilty conscience. Waited for -
Besides the calamity which is upon him, he is in constant
expectation of greater; the sword is used for any grievous
affliction.
Verse 23. Knoweth - From his own guilty conscience.
Verse 25. For - Now he gives the reason of all the fore-mentioned
calamities, which was his great wickedness. Against God - He
sinned against God with an high hand. The Almighty - Which
aggravates the madness of this poor worm that durst fight against
the omnipotent God.
Verse 26. He - The wicked man. Neck - As a stout warrior who cometh
close to his adversary and grapples with him. He acts in flat
opposition to God, both to his precepts and providences. Bosses -
Even where his enemy is strongest.
Verse 27. Because - This is mentioned as the reason of his insolent
carriage towards God, because he was fat, rich, potent, and
successful, as that expression signifies, Deut. xxxii, 15 Psalm
lxxviii, 31 Jer. xlvi, 21. His great prosperity made him proud and
secure, and regardless of God and men. Fat - His only care is to
pamper himself.
Verse 28. But - This is fitly opposed to the prosperity last mentioned,
and is the beginning of the description of his misery.
Verse 29. Substance - What he had gotten shall be taken from him.
Verse 30. Depart - His misery shall have no end. Flame - God's anger
and judgment upon him. Branches - His wealth, and power, and
glory, wherewith he was encompassed, as trees are with their
branches. His mouth - And this expression intimates, with how
much ease God subdueth his enemies: his word, his blast; one act
of his will is sufficient. Go - Hebrew. go back: that is, run away
from God faster than he ran upon him, ver. 26. So it is a
continuation of the former metaphor of a conflict between two
persons.
Verse 31. Vanity - In the vain and deceitful things of this world, he
subjoins a general caution to all men to take heed of running into
the same error and mischief. Vanity - Disappointment and
dissatisfaction, and the loss of all his imaginary felicity.
Recompence - Hebrew. his exchange; he shall exchange one
vanity for another, a pleasing vanity for a vexatious vanity.
Verse 32. Accomplished - That vanity should be his recompence. Before
- When by the course of nature, and common providence he might
have continued much longer.
Chapter 15:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
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| Wesley
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| Bible Gateway |
Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
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