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4:1-7 |
Eliphaz commends then criticises Job |
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4:8-11 |
His theory of observation |
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4:12-21 |
He claims divine revelation |
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5:1-7 |
The wicked suffer due to personal folly |
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5:8-16 |
Suffering is divine punishment: repent |
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5:17-27 |
God delivers the righteous |
"Think now: who ever perished, being innocent?!
And where have the righteous been cut off?!" (Delitzsch).
i) |
"The blast of Eloah" - Antimereia - A
vehement blast; and |
ii) |
"By the breath of his nostrils" - Anthropopatheia -
used twice in this phrase where "breath" and "nostrils" are attributed to God -
"by his anger" AVmg. |
i) |
"lion" - aryeh - general term for "lion"
(Gibson); |
ii) |
fierce "lion" - shakhal - the roaring lion
(Gibson); |
iii) |
young "lions" - kephiyr - a young lion, already
weaned, beginning to ravin (Ges); |
iv) |
old "lion" - layish - crushing (Strong), strong
lion (Gibson) - only found here and in Prov 30:30; Isa 30:6; |
v) |
"lion's" whelp - labhi - a lioness
(Ges). |
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"Now, I have had a secret revelation, |
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a whisper has come to my ears. |
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At the hour when dreams master the mind, |
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and slumber lies heavy on man, |
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a shiver of horror ran through me, |
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and my bones quaked with fear. |
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A breath slid over my face, |
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the hairs of my body bristled. |
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Someone stood there - I could not see his face, |
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but the form remained before me. |
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Silence - and then I heard a Voice" |
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5:1-2 |
General Proposition; |
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5:3-5 |
Proof; and |
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5:6-7 |
Trouble Inevitable. |
'This is the portion of a wicked man from Elohim,
And the heritage appointed unto him by El' (20:29)
'Behold, happy is the man whom Eloah correcteth:
Therefore despise not thou the chastening of Shaddai' (5:17)."
i) |
Famine - raab - "hunger, scarcity of grain"
(Ges) - Psa 33:19; |
ii) |
War - milchamah - "battles" (Strong) - Psa 27:3;
Zech 14:2; |
iii) |
The scourge of the tongue - a vigorous phrase for the sin of
slander. Slander which is like a whip (Soncino) - Isa 28:15; |
iv) |
Destruction - showd - "violence"
(Strong); |
v) |
Destruction (showd) and famine -
kaphan from a word meaning "to bend" (Ezek 17:7).
Kaphan is only found in 5:22 and 30:3 in the Old Testament. Many
interpretations exist and Strong is one of the better ones, "hunger (as making
to stoop with emptiness and pain)." To laugh at "destruction and famine" is a
use of metonymy to express security against them; and |
vi) |
Beasts of the earth. |
SPEECH 1 - ELIPHAZ - TECHNIQUES
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