Job 5:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

Job 5:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 15:15
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Job 15:8-10
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? …
Job 4:18
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
Isaiah 41:21-23
Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob. …
Hebrews 12:1
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-5)

A very warm dispute being begun between Job and his friends, Eliphaz here makes a fair motion to put the matter to a reference. In all debates perhaps the sooner this is done the better if the contenders cannot end it between themselves. So well assured is Eliphaz of the goodness of his own cause that he moves Job himself to choose the arbitrators (Job 5:1): Call now, if there be any that will ans…

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

(vv. 1)

Job 5:1-27. Eliphaz’ Conclusion from the Vision. 1. if there be any, &c.--Rather, “will He (God) reply to thee?” Job, after the revelation just given, cannot be so presumptuous as to think God or any of the holy ones (Da 4:17, “angels”) round His throne, will vouchsafe a reply (a judicial expression) to his rebellious complaint.