Job 15:11
Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?
BSB
ASV
Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?
KJV
Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
Are the consolations of God small with thee? - The “consolations of God” here refer probably to those considerations which had been suggested by Eliphaz and his friends, and which he takes to be the “consolations” which God had furnished for the afflicted. He asks whether they were regarded by Job as of little value? Whether he was not willing to take such consolations as God had provided, and to allow them to sustain him instead of permitting himself to inveigh against God? The Septuagint renders this, “thou hast been chastised less than thy sins deserve.
1834–1892
THESE are the words of Eliphaz, one of those three friends of Job who blundered dreadfully over his case. Their words are not to be despised. For they were men in the front rank of knowledge and experience. Eliphaz says, "With us are both the gray-headed and very aged men, much elder than your father." Their errors were not the superficial mistakes of fools but the profound reasoning of men of light and leading. Their utterances are, at least, equal to anything our own learned men may have to say on the same problem.
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Job 36:16Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.
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You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered and set me free.
My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
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1 Kings 22:24Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”
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At this, the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.
Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.