Job 4:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

Job 4:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 2:4
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Job 25:5-6
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. …
Jude 1:6
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Job 15:15-16
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. …
Isaiah 6:2-3
Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. …

Topics

Angel (a Spirit)Assurance Atheism Attributes of God Believing Creation Depravity of Man Faith

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-21)

Eliphaz, having undertaken to convince Job of the sin and folly of his discontent and impatience, here vouches a vision he had been favoured with, which he relates to Job for his conviction. What comes immediately from God all men will pay a particular deference to, and Job, no doubt, as much as any. Some think Eliphaz had this vision now lately, since he came to Job, putting words into his mouth…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. folly--Imperfection is to be attributed to the angels, in comparison with Him. The holiness of some of them had given way (2Pe 2:4), and at best is but the holiness of a creature. Folly is the want of moral consideration [Umbreit].