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Chapter summary
Eliphaz the Temanite opens the first cycle, gently and then not.
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Chapter summary
Eliphaz the Temanite opens the first cycle, gently and then not.
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Eliphaz the Temanite opens the first cycle, gently and then not. He recalls how Job once strengthened weak hands, then presses the retribution axiom: 'who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the upright cut off?' (4:7): 'they that plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.' He stakes his authority on a night vision: a thing secretly brought to him, dread and trembling, 'a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up,' and a still voice asking, 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker?' Even God's angels, he adds, are charged with folly.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary and John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament.
Context
Poetry · Unknown — Job overview
- A. 1–11 Eliphaz: Who Ever Perished Being Innocent?
- B. 12–21 Eliphaz's Night Vision: Can Mortal Man Be Just Before God?
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