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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
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- Primary Witness Text: Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make w...
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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
Job's friends represent the dominant ancient Near Eastern theodicy: suffering = sin. God's answer from the whirlwind (chs. 38-41) does not explain the suffering but confronts Job with the staggering scale and wisdom of the creation — demanding the creature's epistemological humility before the Creator. Job 19:25-27 ("I know that my Redeemer lives") stands as the OT's most personal resurrection confession.
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Job 5:1
Hebrew
קְֽרָא־נָא הֲיֵשׁ עוֹנֶךָּ וְאֶל־מִי מִקְּדֹשִׁים תִּפְנֶֽה׃qera'-na'-hayesh-'vonekha-ve'el-miy-miqedoshiym-tifeneh
KJV: Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
AKJV: Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn?
ASV: Call now; is there any that will answer thee?
YLT: Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?
Exposition: Job 5:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:2
Hebrew
כִּֽי־לֶֽאֱוִיל יַהֲרָג־כָּעַשׂ וּפֹתֶה תָּמִית קִנְאָֽה׃khiy-le'eviyl-yaharag-kha'ash-vfoteh-tamiyt-qine'ah
KJV: For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
AKJV: For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.
ASV: For vexation killeth the foolish man,
YLT: For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
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Job 5:2
Job 5:2 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Job 5:2
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- Job 5:2
Exposition: Job 5:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:3
Hebrew
אֲֽנִי־רָאִיתִי אֱוִיל מַשְׁרִישׁ וָאֶקּוֹב נָוֵהוּ פִתְאֹֽם׃'aniy-ra'iytiy-'eviyl-masheriysh-va'eqvov-navehv-fite'om
KJV: I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
AKJV: I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
ASV: I have seen the foolish taking root:
YLT: I--I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,
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Job 5:3
Verse 3 I have seen the foolish taking root - I have seen wicked men for a time in prosperity, and becoming established in the earth; but I well knew, from God's manner of dealing with men, that they must soon be blasted. I even ventured to pronounce their doom; for I knew that, in the order of God's providence, that was inevitable. I cursed his habitation.
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Job 5:3
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Exposition: Job 5:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:4
Hebrew
יִרְחֲקוּ בָנָיו מִיֶּשַׁע וְיִֽדַּכְּאוּ בַשַּׁעַר וְאֵין מַצִּֽיל׃yirechaqv-vanayv-miyesha'-veyidakhe'v-vasha'ar-ve'eyn-matziyl
KJV: His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
AKJV: His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
ASV: His children are far from safety,
YLT: Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
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Verse 4 His children are far from safety - His posterity shall not continue in prosperity. Ill gotten, ill spent; whatever is got by wrong must have God's curse on it. They are crushed in the gate - The Targum says, They shall be bruised in the gate of hell, in the day of the great judgment. There is reference here to a custom which I have often had occasion to notice: viz., that in the Eastern countries the court-house, or tribunal of justice, was at the Gate of the city; here the magistrates attended, and hither the plaintiff and defendant came for justice.
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Job 5:4
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Exposition: Job 5:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:5
Hebrew
אֲשֶׁר קְצִירוֹ ׀ רָעֵב יֹאכֵל וְאֶֽל־מִצִּנִּים יִקָּחֵהוּ וְשָׁאַף צַמִּים חֵילָֽם׃'asher-qetziyrvo- -ra'ev-yo'khel-ve'el-mitziniym-yiqachehv-vesha'af-tzamiym-cheylam
KJV: Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
AKJV: Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance.
ASV: Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,
YLT: Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
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Verse 5 Whose harvest - Their possessions, because acquired by unjust means, shall not be under the protection of God's providence; he shall abandon them to be pillaged and destroyed by the wandering half-starved hordes of the desert banditti. They shall carry it suddenly off; even the thorns - grain, weeds, thistles, and all, shall they carry off in their rapacious hurry. The robber swalloweth us - Or, more properly, the thirsty, צמים tsammim, as is plain from their swallowing up or gulping down; opposed to the hungry or half-starved, mentioned in the preceding clause. The hungry shall eat up their grain, and the thirsty shall drink down their wine and oil, here termed חילם cheylam, their strength or power, for the most obvious reasons. There seem to be two allusions in this verse: 1. To the hordes of wandering predatory banditti, or half-starved Arabs of the desert, who have their scanty maintenance by the plunder of others. These descendants of Ishmael have ever had their hands against all men, and live to this day in the same predatory manner in which they have lived for several thousands of years. M. Volney's account of them is striking: "These men are smaller, leaner, and blacker, than any of the Bedouins yet discovered. Their wasted legs had only tendons without calves. Their belly was shrunk to their back. They are in general small, lean, and swarthy, and more so in the bosom of the desert than on the borders of the more cultivated country. They are ordinarily about five feet or five feet two inches high; they seldom have more than about six ounces of food for the whole day. Six or seven dates, soaked in melted butter, a little milk, or curd, serve a man for twenty-four hours; and he seems happy when he can add a small portion of coarse flour, or a little ball of rice. Their camels also, which are their only support, are remarkably meagre, living on the meanest and most scanty provision. Nature has given it a small head without ears, at the end of a long neck without flesh. She has taken from its legs and thighs every muscle not immediately requisite for motion; and in short has bestowed on its withered body only the vessels and tendons necessary to connect its frame together. She has furnished it with a strong jaw, that it may grind the hardest aliments; and, lest it should consume too much, she has straitened its stomach, and obliged it to chew the cud." Such is the description given of the Bedouin and his camel, by M. Volney, who, while he denies the true God, finds out a deity which he calls Nature, whose works evince the highest providence, wisdom, and design! And where does this most wonderful and intelligent goddess dwell? Nowhere but in the creed of the infidel; while the genuine believer knows that nature is only the agent created and employed by the great and wise God to accomplish, under his direction, the greatest and most stupendous beneficial effects. The second allusion in the verse I suppose to be to the loss Job had sustained of his cattle by the predatory Sabeans; and all this Eliphaz introduces for the support of his grand argument, to convict Job of hidden crimes, on which account his enemies were permitted to destroy his property; that property, because of this wickedness, being placed out of the protection of God's providence.
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Exposition: Job 5:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:6
Hebrew
כִּי ׀ לֹא־יֵצֵא מֵעָפָר אָוֶן וּמֵאֲדָמָה לֹא־יִצְמַח עָמָֽל׃khiy- -lo'-yetze'-me'afar-'aven-vme'adamah-lo'-yitzemach-'amal
KJV: Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
AKJV: Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
ASV: For affliction cometh not forth from the dust,
YLT: For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
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Verse 6 Affliction cometh not forth of the dust - If there were not an adequate cause, thou couldst not be so grievously afflicted. Spring out of the ground - It is not from mere natural causes that affliction and trouble come; God's justice inflicts them upon offending man.
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Exposition: Job 5:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:7
Hebrew
כִּֽי־אָדָם לְעָמָל יוּלָּד וּבְנֵי־רֶשֶׁף יַגְבִּיהוּ עֽוּף׃khiy-'adam-le'amal-yvlad-vveney-reshef-yageviyhv-'vf
KJV: Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
AKJV: Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
ASV: But man is born unto trouble,
YLT: For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
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Verse 7 Yet man is born unto trouble - לעמל leamal, to labor. He must toil and be careful; and if in the course of his labor he meet with trials and difficulties, he should rise superior to them, and not sink as thou dost. As the sparks By upward - ובני רשף יגביהי עוף ubeney resheph yagbihu uph; And the sons of the coal lift up their flight, or dart upwards. And who are the sons of the coal? Are they not bold, intrepid, ardent, fearless men, who rise superior to all their trials; combat what are termed chance and occurrence; succumb under no difficulties; and rise superior to time, tide, fate, and fortune? I prefer this to all the various meanings of the place with which I have met. Coverdale translates, It is man that is borne unto mysery, like as the byrde for to fle. Most of the ancient versions give a similar sense.
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Exposition: Job 5:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:8
Hebrew
אוּלָם אֲנִי אֶדְרֹשׁ אֶל־אֵל וְאֶל־אֱלֹהִים אָשִׂים דִּבְרָתִֽי׃'vlam-'aniy-'ederosh-'el-'el-ve'el-'elohiym-'ashiym-diveratiy
KJV: I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
AKJV: I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:
ASV: But as for me, I would seek unto God,
YLT: Yet I--I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
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Verse 8 I would seek unto God - Were I in your place, instead of wasting my time, and irritating my soul with useless complaints, I would apply to my Maker, and, if conscious of my innocence, would confidently commit my cause to him.
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Exposition: Job 5:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:9
Hebrew
עֹשֶׂה גְדֹלוֹת וְאֵין חֵקֶר נִפְלָאוֹת עַד־אֵין מִסְפָּֽר׃'osheh-gedolvot-ve'eyn-cheqer-nifela'vot-'ad-'eyn-misefar
KJV: Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
AKJV: Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
ASV: Who doeth great things and unsearchable,
YLT: Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.
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Verse 9 Which doeth great things - No work, however complicated, is too deep for his counsel to plan; none, however stupendous, is too great for his power to execute. He who is upright is always safe in referring his cause to God, and trusting in him.
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Exposition: Job 5:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:10
Hebrew
הַנֹּתֵן מָטָר עַל־פְּנֵי־אָרֶץ וְשֹׁלֵֽחַ מַיִם עַל־פְּנֵי חוּצֽוֹת׃hanoten-matar-'al-feney-'aretz-vesholecha-mayim-'al-feney-chvtzvot
KJV: Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
AKJV: Who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields:
ASV: Who giveth rain upon the earth,
YLT: Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
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Verse 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth - The Chaldee gives this verse a fine turn: "Who gives rain on the face of the land of Israel, and sends waters on the face of the provinces of the people." Similar to our Lord's saying, which is expressed in the half of the compass: Your Father which is in heaven - Sendeth Rain on the Just and on the Unjust; Mat 5:45. Sendeth waters upon the fields - The term חצות chutsoth, which we translate fields, and generally signifies streets, may here mean those plantations which are laid out in ridges or plats, in an orderly, regular manner. God does not only send rain upon the earth in a general manner, but, by an especial providence, waters the cultivated ground, so that not one ridge is destitute of its due proportion of fructifying moisture.
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- Mat 5:45
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- Ovid
- Israel
- Unjust
Exposition: Job 5:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:11
Hebrew
לָשׂוּם שְׁפָלִים לְמָרוֹם וְקֹדְרִים שָׂגְבוּ יֶֽשַׁע׃lashvm-shefaliym-lemarvom-veqoderiym-shagevv-yesha'
KJV: To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
AKJV: To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
ASV: So that he setteth up on high those that are low,
YLT: To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety.
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Verse 11 To set up on high those that be low - He so distributes his providential blessings without partiality, that the land of the poor man is as well sunned and watered as that of the rich; so that he is thus set upon a level with the lords of the soil.
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- Ovid
Exposition: Job 5:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:12
Hebrew
מֵפֵר מַחְשְׁבוֹת עֲרוּמִים וְֽלֹא־תַעֲשֶׂינָה יְדֵיהֶם תּוּשִׁיָּֽה׃mefer-macheshevvot-'arvmiym-velo'-ta'asheynah-yedeyhem-tvshiyah
KJV: He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
AKJV: He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
ASV: He frustrateth the devices of the crafty,
YLT: Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
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Verse 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty - All these sayings refer to God's particular providence, by which he is ever working for the good, and counterworking the plots of the wicked. And as various as are the contingent, capricious, and malevolent acts of men, so varied are his providential interferences; disappointing the devices, snares, and plots of the crafty, so that their plans being confounded, and their machinery broken in pieces, their hands cannot perform their enterprises.
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Exposition: Job 5:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:13
Hebrew
לֹכֵד חֲכָמִים בְּעָרְמָם וַעֲצַת נִפְתָּלִים נִמְהָֽרָה׃lokhed-chakhamiym-ve'aremam-va'atzat-nifetaliym-nimeharah
KJV: He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
AKJV: He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the fraudulent is carried headlong.
ASV: He taketh the wise in their own craftiness;
YLT: Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
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Verse 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness - So counterworks them as to cause their feet to be taken in their own snares, and their evil dealings to fall on their own pate. Such frequent proofs has God given of his especial interference in behalf of the innocent, who have been the objects of the plots and evil designs of the wicked, by turning those evil devices against their framers, that he who digs a pit for his neighbor shall fall into it himself has become a universal adage, and has passed, either in so many words or in sense, into all the languages of all the people of the earth. Lucretius expresses it strongly: Circumretit enim vis atque injuria quemque, Atque, unde exorta est, ad eum plerumque revortit. Lucret. lib. v., ver. 1151. "For force and wrong entangle the man that uses them; And, for the most part, recoil on the head of the contriver."
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Exposition: Job 5:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:14
Hebrew
יוֹמָם יְפַגְּשׁוּ־חֹשֶׁךְ וְכַלַּיְלָה יְֽמַשְׁשׁוּ בַֽצָּהֳרָֽיִם׃yvomam-yefageshv-choshekhe-vekhalayelah-yemasheshv-vatzahorayim
KJV: They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
AKJV: They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
ASV: They meet with darkness in the day-time,
YLT: By day they meet darkness, And as night--they grope at noon.
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Verse 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime - God confounds them and their measures; and, with all their cunning and dexterity, they are outwitted, and often act on their own projects, planned with care and skill, as if they had been the crudest conceptions of the most disordered minds. They act in noonday as if the sun were extinct, and their eyes put out. Thus does God "abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices."
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Exposition: Job 5:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:15
Hebrew
וַיֹּשַׁע מֵחֶרֶב מִפִּיהֶם וּמִיַּד חָזָק אֶבְיֽוֹן׃vayosha'-mecherev-mifiyhem-vmiyad-chazaq-'eveyvon
KJV: But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
AKJV: But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
ASV: But he saveth from the sword of their mouth,
YLT: And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,
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Verse 15 He saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth - This is rather a harsh construction. To avoid this, some have proposed to render מחרב mechereb, which we translate from the sword, the persecuted, but, I am afraid, on very slender authority. Instead of מחרב מפיהם mechereb mippihem, "from the sword, from their mouth," eleven of Kennicott and De Rossi's MSS. read מחרב פיהם mechereb pihem, from the sword of their mouth; and with these MSS. the Chaldee, Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic agree. The verse, therefore, may be translated thus: - He saveth from the sword of their mouth; The poor from the hand of the mighty. Or thus: - He saveth from the sword of their mouth; And with a strong hand the impoverished.
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Job 5:15
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- Vulgate
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Exposition: Job 5:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:16
Hebrew
וַתְּהִי לַדַּל תִּקְוָה וְעֹלָתָה קָפְצָה פִּֽיהָ׃vatehiy-ladal-tiqevah-ve'olatah-qafetzah-fiyha
KJV: So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
AKJV: So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
ASV: So the poor hath hope,
YLT: And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.
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Verse 16 So the poor - דל dal, he who is made thin, who is wasted, extenuated; hath hope - he sees what God is accustomed to do, and he expects a repetition of gracious dealings in his own behalf; and because God deals thus with those who trust in him, therefore the mouth of impiety is stopped. Religion is kept alive in the earth, because of God's signal interventions in behalf of the bodies and souls of his followers.
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Exposition: Job 5:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:17
Hebrew
הִנֵּה אַשְׁרֵי אֱנוֹשׁ יוֹכִחֶנּֽוּ אֱלוֹהַּ וּמוּסַר שַׁדַּי אַל־תִּמְאָֽס׃hineh-'asherey-'envosh-yvokhichenv-'elvoha-vmvsar-shaday-'al-time'as
KJV: Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
AKJV: Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
ASV: Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth:
YLT: Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,
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Verse 17 Behold, happy is the man - הנח hinneh, behold, is wanting in five of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., and also in the Syriac, Vulgate, and Arabic. We have had fathers of our flesh, who corrected us for their pleasure, or according to their caprices, and we were subject to them: how much more should we be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? for he corrects that we may be partakers of his holiness, in order that we may be rendered fit for his glory. See Heb 12:5; Jam 1:12; and Pro 3:12.
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Job 5:17
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- Heb 12:5
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- Vulgate
- Behold
- Syriac
- Arabic
Exposition: Job 5:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:18
Hebrew
כִּי הוּא יַכְאִיב וְיֶחְבָּשׁ יִמְחַץ וידו וְיָדָיו תִּרְפֶּֽינָה׃khiy-hv'-yakhe'iyv-veyechevash-yimechatz-vydv-veyadayv-tirefeynah
KJV: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
AKJV: For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
ASV: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up;
YLT: For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.
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Verse 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up - Thus nervously rendered by Coverdale, For though he make a wounde, he giveth a medicyne agayne; though he smyte, his honde maketh whole agayne.
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Job 5:18
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- Coverdale
Exposition: Job 5:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:19
Hebrew
בְּשֵׁשׁ צָרוֹת יַצִּילֶךָּ וּבְשֶׁבַע ׀ לֹא־יִגַּע בְּךָ רָֽע׃veshesh-tzarvot-yatziylekha-vvesheva'- -lo'-yiga'-vekha-ra'
KJV: He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
AKJV: He shall deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
ASV: He will deliver thee in six troubles;
YLT: In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.
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Verse 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles - The numbers six and seven are put here for many. Though a number of troubles should come upon thee all at once, and there should be no hope, humanly speaking, yet God would rid thee out of them all; for he saves as well from many as from few. We may also understand the words, He who hath been thy deliverer in past troubles, will not deny his help in those which are to come.
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Exposition: Job 5:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:20
Hebrew
בְּרָעָב פָּֽדְךָ מִמָּוֶת וּבְמִלְחָמָה מִידֵי חָֽרֶב׃vera'av-fadekha-mimavet-vvemilechamah-miydey-charev
KJV: In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
AKJV: In famine he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
ASV: In famine he will redeem thee from death;
YLT: In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.
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Verse 20 In famine he shall redeem thee - The Chaldee, which understands this chapter as speaking of the troubles and deliverances of the Israelites in Egypt and the wilderness, renders this verse as follows: "In the famine of Egypt he redeemed thee from death; and in the war of Amalek, from the slaying of the sword."
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Job 5:20
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- The Chaldee
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Exposition: Job 5:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:21
Hebrew
בְּשׁוֹט לָשׁוֹן תֵּחָבֵא וְֽלֹא־תִירָא מִשֹּׁד כִּי יָבֽוֹא׃veshvot-lashvon-techave'-velo'-tiyra'-mishod-khiy-yavvo'
KJV: Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
AKJV: You shall be hid from the whip of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
ASV: Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue;
YLT: When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.
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Verse 21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue - The Targum refers this to the incantations of Balaam: "From injury by the tongue of Balaam thou shalt be hidden in the clouds; and thou shalt not fear from the blasting of the Midianites, when it shall come." Perhaps no evil is more dreadful than the scourge of the tongue: evil-speaking, detraction, backbiting, calumny, slander, tale-bearing, whispering, and scandalizing, are some of the terms which we use when endeavoring to express the baleful influence and effects of that member, which is a world of fire, kindled from the nethermost hell. The Scripture abounds with invectives and execrations against it. See Psa 31:20; Psa 52:2-4; Pro 12:18; Pro 14:3; Jam 3:1-8. Neither shalt thou be afraid - "Thou shouldst have such strong confidence in God, that even in the presence of destruction thou shouldst not fear death," the God of life and power being with thee.
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Job 5:21
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- Targum
- Balaam
- Midianites
Exposition: Job 5:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:22
Hebrew
לְשֹׁד וּלְכָפָן תִּשְׂחָק וּֽמֵחַיַּת הָאָרֶץ אַל־תִּירָֽא׃leshod-vlekhafan-tishechaq-vmechayat-ha'aretz-'al-tiyra'
KJV: At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
AKJV: At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
ASV: At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh;
YLT: At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.
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Verse 22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh - This most forcibly expresses the strongest security, and confidence in that security. "In the desolation of Sihon, and in the famine of the desert, thou shalt laugh; and of the camps of Og, who is compared to a wild beast of the earth, thou shalt not be afraid." - Targum.
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Job 5:22
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- Targum
- Sihon
- Og
Exposition: Job 5:22 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:23
Hebrew
כִּי עִם־אַבְנֵי הַשָּׂדֶה בְרִיתֶךָ וְחַיַּת הַשָּׂדֶה הָשְׁלְמָה־לָֽךְ׃khiy-'im-'aveney-hashadeh-veriytekha-vechayat-hashadeh-hashelemah-lakhe
KJV: For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
AKJV: For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
ASV: For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field;
YLT: (For with sons of the field is thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)
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Verse 23 Thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field - Instead of אבני abney, stones, Mr. Good reads בני beney, sons, or produce; but this reading is not supported by any ancient version, nor, as far as I know, by any MS. yet collated. We must, therefore, take up the text as we find it, and make the best we can of the present reading. The Chaldee gives a plausible sense: Thou needest not to fear, "because thy covenant is on tables of stone, which are publicly erected in the field; and the Canaanites, which are compared to the beasts of the field, have made peace with thee." Perhaps the reference is to those rocks or strong holds, where banditti secured themselves and their prey, or where the emirs or neighboring chiefs had their ordinary residence. Eliphaz may be understood as saying: Instead, then, of taking advantage of thee, as the Sabeans have done, the circumjacent chieftains will be confederate with thee; and the very beasts of the field will not be permitted to harm thy flocks. Coverdale seems to have had an idea of this kind, as we find he translates the verse thus: - But the castels in the londe shall be confederate with the, And the beastes of the felde shall give the peace. I believe the above to be the meaning of the place. See the next verse, Job 5:24 (note).
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Job 5:23
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- Job 5:24
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- Mr
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- Instead
Exposition: Job 5:23 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:24
Hebrew
וְֽיָדַעְתָּ כִּי־שָׁלוֹם אָהֳלֶךָ וּֽפָקַדְתָּ נָוְךָ וְלֹא תֶחֱטָֽא׃veyada'eta-khiy-shalvom-'aholekha-vfaqadeta-navekha-velo'-techeta'
KJV: And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
AKJV: And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin.
ASV: And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace;
YLT: And thou hast known that thy tent is peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,
Commentary WitnessJob 5:24Quoted commentary witness
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Job 5:24
Verse 24 Thou shalt know - Thou shalt be so fully satisfied of the friendly disposition of all thy neighbors, that thou shalt rest secure in thy bed, and not be afraid of any danger, though sleeping in thy tent in the field; and when thou returnest from thy country excursions, thou shalt find that thy habitation has been preserved in peace and prosperity, and that thou hast made no mistake in thy trust, in thy confidence, or in thy confederates. The word אהלך oholecha, "thy tabernacle," means simply a tent, or moveable dwelling, composed of poles, pins, and cloth, or skin, to be pitched any where in a few moments, and struck again with the same ease. The word נוך navecha, which we properly translate thy habitation, signifies a solid, permanent dwelling-place. See Jos 22:4, Jos 22:6-8; 2Sam 18:17; 2Sam 19:8; 1Kgs 12:16; Psa 52:7; Psa 91:10; Psa 132:3; Lam 2:4; Mal 2:12; and with these passages compare the place in the text. As to תחטא techeta, which we translate thou shalt not Sin, it comes from חטא chata, to err, to mistake, to miss the mark: hence to sin, transgress God's laws, seeking for happiness in forbidden and unlawful things, and therefore missing the mark, because in them happiness is not to be found: and it is very likely, from the connection above, that to mistake or err is its meaning in this place. I need not add, that the Arab chiefs, who had their castles or strong holds, frequently in their country excursions lodged in tents in the open fields; and that on such occasions a hostile neighbor sometimes took advantage of their absence, attacked and pillaged their houses, and carried off their families and household. See at the end of this chapter, Job 5:27 (note).
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- 2Sam 18:17
- 2Sam 19:8
- 1Kgs 12:16
- Lam 2:4
- Mal 2:12
- Job 5:27
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Sin
Exposition: Job 5:24 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:25
Hebrew
וְֽיָדַעְתָּ כִּי־רַב זַרְעֶךָ וְצֶאֱצָאֶיךָ כְּעֵשֶׂב הָאָֽרֶץ׃veyada'eta-khiy-rav-zare'ekha-vetze'etza'eykha-khe'eshev-ha'aretz
KJV: Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
AKJV: You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
ASV: Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great,
YLT: And hast known that numerous is Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 5:25Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 5:25
Job 5:25 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Job 5:25
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 5:25
Exposition: Job 5:25 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:26
Hebrew
תָּבוֹא בְכֶלַח אֱלֵי־קָבֶר כַּעֲלוֹת גָּדִישׁ בְּעִתּֽוֹ׃tavvo'-vekhelach-'eley-qaver-kha'alvot-gadiysh-ve'itvo
KJV: Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
AKJV: You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season.
ASV: Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age,
YLT: Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.
Commentary WitnessJob 5:26Quoted commentary witness
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Job 5:26
Verse 26 Thou shalt come to thy grave - Thou shalt not die before thy time; thou shalt depart from life like a full-fed guest; happy in what thou hast known, and in what thou hast enjoyed. Like as a shock of corn - Thou shalt completely run through the round of the spring, summer, autumn, and winter of life; and thou shalt be buried like a wholesome seed in the earth; from which thou shalt again rise up into an eternal spring!
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Exposition: Job 5:26 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 5:27
Hebrew
הִנֵּה־זֹאת חֲקַרְנוּהָ כֶּֽן־הִיא שְׁמָעֶנָּה וְאַתָּה דַֽע־לָֽךְ׃hineh-zo't-chaqarenvha-khen-hiy'-shema'enah-ve'atah-da'-lakhe
KJV: Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
AKJV: See this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.
ASV: Lo this, we have searched it, so it is;
YLT: Lo, this--we searched it out--it is right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!
Commentary WitnessJob 5:27Quoted commentary witness
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Job 5:27
Verse 27 Lo this, we have searched it - What I have told thee is the sum of our wisdom and experience on these important points. These are established maxims, which universal experience supports. Know - understand, and reduce them to practice for thy good. Thus ends Eliphaz, the Temanite, "full of wise saws and ancient instances;" but he miserably perverted them in his application of them to Job's case and character. They contain, however, many wholesome truths, of which the wise in heart may make a very advantageous practical use. The predatory excursions referred to in Job 5:23 were not unfrequent among our own barbarous ancestors. An affecting picture of this kind is drawn by Shakespeare, from Holinshed's Chronicles, of the case of Macduff, whose castle was attacked in his absence by Macbeth and his wife and all his children murdered. A similar incident was the ground of the old heroic ballad of Hardicanute. When the veteran heard that a host of Norwegians had landed to pillage the country, he armed, and posted to the field to meet the invading foe. He slew the chief in battle, and routed his pillaging banditti. While this was taking place, another party took the advantage of his absence, attacked his castle, and carried off or murdered his lovely wife and family; which, being perceived on his return by the war and age-worn chief, is thus affectingly described by the unknown poet: - Loud and chill blew the westlin wind,Sair beat the heavy shower, Mirk grew the nicht eir HardyknuteWan neir his stately tower: His tower that us'd with torches bleiseTo shine sae far at night, Seim'd now as black as mourning weid,Nae marvel, sair he sich'd. "Thair's nae light in my lady's bowir,Thair's nae light in my hall; Nae blink shynes round my Fairly fair,Nor ward stands on my wall. "What bodes it, Thomas! Robert! say?"Nae answer - speaks their dreid; "Stand back, my sons, I'll be your gyde;"But bye they pass'd with speid. "As fast I haif sped owr Scotland's foes"There ceis'd his brag of weir. Sair schamt to mind ocht but his dame,And maiden Fairly fair. Black feir he felt; but what to feirHe wist not yet with dreid; Sair schook his body, sair his limbs,And all the warrior fled. The ending of this poem is lost; but we here see that the castle of Hardicanute was surprised, and his family destroyed, or carried off, while he and his sons had been employed in defeating the invading Norwegians. Thank God! civilization, the offspring of the spread of Christianity, has put an end to these barbarous practices among us; but in the East, where Christianity is not, they flourish still. Britons! send out your Bible and your missionaries to tame these barbarians; for whom heathenism has done nothing, and the Koran next to nothing. Civilization itself, without the Bible, will do as little; for the civilized Greeks and Romans were barbarians, fell and murderous; living in envy and malice, hateful, hating one another, and offering hundreds at a time of human victims to their ruthless deities. Nothing but Christianity ever did, or even can, cure these evils.
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Job 5:27
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Biblical cross-references named in the witness
- Job 5:23
Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Eliphaz
- Temanite
- Shakespeare
- Chronicles
- Macduff
- Hardicanute
- Norwegians
- Christianity
- East
- Bible
Exposition: Job 5:27 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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- Job 5:1-8
- Job 5:9-16
- Job 5:17-27
- Job 5:1
- Job 5:2
- Job 5:3
- Job 5:4
- Job 5:5
- Job 5:6
- Job 5:7
- Job 5:8
- Job 5:9
- Mat 5:45
- Job 5:10
- Job 5:11
- Job 5:12
- Job 5:13
- Job 5:14
- Job 5:15
- Job 5:16
- Heb 12:5
- Job 5:17
- Job 5:18
- Job 5:19
- Job 5:20
- Job 5:21
- Job 5:22
- Job 5:24
- Job 5:23
- 2Sam 18:17
- 2Sam 19:8
- 1Kgs 12:16
- Lam 2:4
- Mal 2:12
- Job 5:27
- Job 5:25
- Job 5:26
Named authorities or texts surfaced in commentary
- Ovid
- Ray
- Targum
- Or
- Volney
- Nature
- Sabeans
- Maker
- Israel
- Unjust
- Atque
- Lucret
- And
- Vulgate
- Chaldee
- Syriac
- Behold
- Arabic
- Coverdale
- The Chaldee
- Amalek
- Balaam
- Midianites
- Sihon
- Og
- Mr
- Canaanites
- Instead
- Sin
- Eliphaz
- Temanite
- Shakespeare
- Chronicles
- Macduff
- Hardicanute
- Norwegians
- Christianity
- East
- Bible
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Job 5:1
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