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Text -- Job 15:1-35 (NET)
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Context
Eliphaz’s Second Speech
15:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered :
15:2 “Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge , or fill his belly with the east wind ?
15:3 Does he argue with useless talk , with words that have no value in them?
15:4 But you even break off piety , and hinder meditation before God .
15:5 Your sin inspires your mouth ; you choose the language of the crafty .
15:6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I ; your own lips testify against you.
15:7 “Were you the first man ever born ? Were you brought forth before the hills ?
15:8 Do you listen in on God’s secret council ? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
15:9 What do you know that we don’t know ? What do you understand that we don’t understand?
15:10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father .
15:11 Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?
15:12 Why has your heart carried you away , and why do your eyes flash ,
15:13 when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth ?
15:14 What is man that he should be pure , or one born of woman , that he should be righteous ?
15:15 If God places no trust in his holy ones , if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes ,
15:16 how much less man , who is abominable and corrupt , who drinks in evil like water !
15:17 “I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen , I will declare ,
15:18 what wise men declare , hiding nothing , from the tradition of their ancestors ,
15:19 to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
15:20 All his days the wicked man suffers torment , throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant .
15:21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears ; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
15:22 He does not expect to escape from darkness ; he is marked for the sword ;
15:23 he wanders about– food for vultures ; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand .
15:24 Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack ,
15:25 for he stretches out his hand against God , and vaunts himself against the Almighty ,
15:26 defiantly charging against him with a thick , strong shield !
15:27 Because he covered his face with fat , and made his hips bulge with fat ,
15:28 he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives , where they are ready to crumble into heaps .
15:29 He will not grow rich , and his wealth will not endure , nor will his possessions spread over the land .
15:30 He will not escape the darkness ; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth .
15:31 Let him not trust in what is worthless , deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward .
15:32 Before his time he will be paid in full , and his branches will not flourish .
15:33 Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall , and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms .
15:34 For the company of the godless is barren , and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes .
15:35 They conceive trouble and bring forth evil ; their belly prepares deception .”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Job |
Uncharitableness |
ELIPHAZ (2) |
Wicked |
Pride |
JOB, BOOK OF |
Fear of God |
ELIPHAZ |
Belly |
Sin |
Depravity of Mankind |
Complaint |
Blasphemy |
Hypocrisy |
WINK |
Conscience |
Olive |
Afflictions and Adversities |
God |
Boss |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Job 15:1; Job 15:2; Job 15:2; Job 15:2; Job 15:3; Job 15:3; Job 15:3; Job 15:4; Job 15:4; Job 15:4; Job 15:4; Job 15:5; Job 15:5; Job 15:5; Job 15:6; Job 15:6; Job 15:8; Job 15:8; Job 15:9; Job 15:10; Job 15:10; Job 15:10; Job 15:11; Job 15:11; Job 15:11; Job 15:12; Job 15:12; Job 15:12; Job 15:13; Job 15:13; Job 15:15; Job 15:15; Job 15:16; Job 15:16; Job 15:17; Job 15:17; Job 15:18; Job 15:18; Job 15:19; Job 15:20; Job 15:20; Job 15:20; Job 15:20; Job 15:21; Job 15:21; Job 15:22; Job 15:22; Job 15:22; Job 15:22; Job 15:23; Job 15:23; Job 15:24; Job 15:24; Job 15:25; Job 15:25; Job 15:26; Job 15:26; Job 15:27; Job 15:27; Job 15:27; Job 15:28; Job 15:28; Job 15:28; Job 15:29; Job 15:30; Job 15:30; Job 15:31; Job 15:31; Job 15:32; Job 15:32; Job 15:32; Job 15:33; Job 15:33; Job 15:34; Job 15:34; Job 15:34; Job 15:35; Job 15:35
NET Notes: Job 15:1 In the first round of speeches, Eliphaz had emphasized the moral perfection of God, Bildad his unwavering justice, and Zophar his omniscience. Since t...
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NET Notes: Job 15:2 The word for “east wind,” קָדִים (qadim), is parallel to “spirit/wind” also in Hos 12:2. T...
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NET Notes: Job 15:3 The verb סָכַן (sakhan) means “to be useful, profitable.” It is found 5 times in the book with this meaning....
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NET Notes: Job 15:4 The word שִׂיחָה (sikhah) is “complaint; cry; meditation.” Job would be influencing people to ch...
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NET Notes: Job 15:5 The word means “shrewd; crafty; cunning” (see Gen 3:1). Job uses clever speech that is misleading and destructive.
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NET Notes: Job 15:6 The verb עָנָה (’anah) with the ל (lamed) preposition following it means “to testify against.” F...
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NET Notes: Job 15:8 In v. 4 the word meant “limit”; here it has a slightly different sense, namely, “to reserve for oneself.”
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NET Notes: Job 15:9 The last clause simply has “and it is not with us.” It means that one possesses something through knowledge. Note the parallelism of ̶...
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NET Notes: Job 15:10 The line reads: “[men] greater than your father [in] days.” The expression “in days” underscores their age – they were o...
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NET Notes: Job 15:11 The word “spoken” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation.
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NET Notes: Job 15:12 Here is another word that occurs only here, and in the absence of a completely convincing suggestion, probably should be left as it is. The verb is ...
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NET Notes: Job 15:15 The question here is whether the reference is to material “heavens” (as in Exod 24:10 and Job 25:5), or to heavenly beings. The latter see...
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NET Notes: Job 15:16 Man commits evil with the same ease and facility as he drinks in water – freely and in large quantities.
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NET Notes: Job 15:18 Heb “their fathers.” Some commentators change one letter and follow the reading of the LXX: “and their fathers have not hidden.̶...
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NET Notes: Job 15:19 Eliphaz probably thinks that Edom was the proverbial home of wisdom, and so the reference here would be to his own people. If, as many interpret, the ...
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NET Notes: Job 15:21 The word שׁוֹדֵד (shoded) means “a robber; a plunderer” (see Job 12:6). With the verb bo’ ...
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NET Notes: Job 15:22 Heb “he is watched [or waited for] by the sword.” G. R. Driver reads it, “he is marked down for the sword” (“Problems in...
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NET Notes: Job 15:23 This line is fraught with difficulties (perceived or real), which prompt numerous suggestions. The reading of the MT is “he knows that a day of ...
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NET Notes: Job 15:24 This last colon is deleted by some, moved to v. 26 by others, and the NEB puts it in brackets. The last word (translated here as “launch an atta...
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NET Notes: Job 15:25 The Hitpael of גָּבַר (gavar) means “to act with might” or “to behave like a hero.” The id...
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NET Notes: Job 15:26 Heb “with the thickness of the bosses of his shield.” The bosses are the convex sides of the bucklers, turned against the foe. This is a d...
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NET Notes: Job 15:27 The term פִּימָה (pimah), a hapax legomenon, is explained by the Arabic fa’ima, “to be fat.̶...
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NET Notes: Job 15:28 The Hebrew has simply “they are made ready for heaps.” The LXX translates it, “what they have prepared, let others carry away.”...
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NET Notes: Job 15:29 This word מִנְלָם (minlam) also is a hapax legomenon, although almost always interpreted to mean “poss...
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NET Notes: Job 15:30 This last line in the verse is the difficult one. The MT has “he shall depart by the breath of his mouth.” If this reading stands, then it...
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NET Notes: Job 15:31 This word is found in Job 20:18 with the sense of “trading.” It can mean the exchange of goods or the profit from them. Some commentators ...
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NET Notes: Job 15:32 Now, in the second half of the verse, the metaphor of a tree with branches begins.
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NET Notes: Job 15:33 The point is that like the tree the wicked man shows signs of life but produces nothing valuable. The olive tree will have blossoms in the years that ...
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NET Notes: Job 15:34 Heb “the tents of bribery.” The word “bribery” can mean a “gift,” but most often in the sense of a bribe in court....
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