Job Chapter 04 Matthew Henry Commentary Concise

Eliphaz reproves Job. (1-6)
And maintains that God's judgments are for the wicked. (7-11)
The vision of Eliphaz. (12-21)

Verses 1-6 Satan undertook to prove Job a hypocrite by afflicting him; and his friends concluded him to be one because he was so afflicted, and showed impatience. This we must keep in mind if we would understand what passed. Eliphaz speaks of Job, and his afflicted condition, with tenderness; but charges him with weakness and faint-heartedness. Men make few allowances for those who have taught others. Even pious friends will count that only a touch which we feel as a wound. Learn from hence to draw off the mind of a sufferer from brooding over the affliction, to look at the God of mercies in the affliction. And how can this be done so well as by looking to Christ Jesus, in whose unequalled sorrows every child of God soonest learns to forget his own?

  욥4:1 엘리바스의 첫 번째 발언1

욥 4:1 데만 사람 엘리바스가 대답하여 가로되 

욥 4:2 누가 네게 말하면 네가 염증이 나겠느냐 날지라도 누가 참고 말하지 아니하겠느냐 

욥 4:3 전에 네가 여러 사람을 교훈하였고 손이 늘어진 자면 강하게 하였고 

욥 4:4 넘어져 가는 자를 말로 붙들어 주었고 무릎이 약한 자를 강하게 하였거늘 

욥 4:5 이제 이 일이 네게 임하매 네가 답답하여 하고 이 일이 네게 당하매 네가 놀라는구나 

욥 4:6 네 의뢰가 경외함에 있지 아니하냐 네 소망이 네 행위를 완전히 함에 있지 아니하냐 

Verses 7-11 Eliphaz argues, 1. That good men were never thus ruined. But there is one event both to the righteous and to the wicked, ( Ecclesiastes 9:2 ) , both in life and death; the great and certain difference is after death. Our worst mistakes are occasioned by drawing wrong views from undeniable truths. 2. That wicked men were often thus ruined: for the proof of this, Eliphaz vouches his own observation. We may see the same every day.

욥 4:7 생각하여 보라 죄없이 망한 자가 누구인가 정직한 자의 끊어짐이 어디 있는가 

욥 4:8 내가 보건대 악을 밭갈고 독을 뿌리는 자는 그대로 거두나니 

욥 4:9 다 하나님의 입기운에 멸망하고 그 콧김에 사라지느니라 

욥 4:10 사자의 우는 소리와 사나운 사자의 목소리가 그치고 젊은 사자의 이가 부러지며 

욥 4:11 늙은 사자는 움킨 것이 없어 죽고 암사자의 새끼는 흩어지느니라 

Verses 12-21 Eliphaz relates a vision. When we are communing with our own hearts, and are still, ( Psalms 4:4 ) , then is a time for the Holy Spirit to commune with us. This vision put him into very great fear. Ever since man sinned, it has been terrible to him to receive communications from Heaven, conscious that he can expect no good tidings thence. Sinful man! shall he pretend to be more just, more pure, than God, who being his Maker, is his Lord and Owner? How dreadful, then, the pride and presumption of man! How great the patience of God! Look upon man in his life. The very foundation of that cottage of clay in which man dwells, is in the dust, and it will sink with its own weight. We stand but upon the dust. Some have a higher heap of dust to stand upon than others but still it is the earth that stays us up, and will shortly swallow us up. Man is soon crushed; or if some lingering distemper, which consumes like a moth, be sent to destroy him, he cannot resist it. Shall such a creature pretend to blame the appointments of God? Look upon man in his death. Life is short, and in a little time men are cut off. Beauty, strength, learning, not only cannot secure them from death, but these things die with them; nor shall their pomp, their wealth, or power, continue after them. Shall a weak, sinful, dying creature, pretend to be more just than God, and more pure than his Maker? No: instead of quarrelling with his afflictions, let him wonder that he is out of hell. Can a man be cleansed without his Maker? Will God justify sinful mortals, and clear them from guilt? or will he do so without their having an interest in the righteousness and gracious help of their promised Redeemer, when angels, once ministering spirits before his throne, receive the just recompence of their sins? Notwithstanding the seeming impunity of men for a short time, though living without God in the world, their doom is as certain as that of the fallen angels, and is continually overtaking them. Yet careless sinners note it so little, that they expect not the change, nor are wise to consider their latter end.

욥 4:12 무슨 말씀이 내게 가만히 임하고 그 가는 소리가 내 귀에 들렸었나니 

욥 4:13 곧 사람이 깊이 잠들 때쯤 하여서니라 내가 그 밤의 이상으로 하여 생각이 번거로울 때에 

욥 4:14 두려움과 떨림이 내게 이르러서 모든 골절이 흔들렸었느니라 

욥 4:15 그 때에 영이 내 앞으로 지나매 내 몸에 털이 주뼛하였었느니라 

욥 4:16 그 영이 서는데 그 형상을 분변치는 못하여도 오직 한 형상이 내눈 앞에 있었느니라 그 때 내가 종용한 중에 목소리를 들으니 이르기를 

욥 4:17 인생이 어찌 하나님보다 의롭겠느냐 사람이 어찌 그 창조하신 이보다 성결하겠느냐 

욥 4:18 하나님은 그 종이라도 오히려 믿지 아니하시며 그 사자라도 미련하다 하시나니 

욥 4:19 하물며 흙 집에 살며 티끌로 터를 삼고 하루살이에게라도 눌려 죽을 자이겠느냐 

욥 4:20 조석 사이에 멸한 바 되며 영원히 망하되 생각하는 자가 없으리라 

욥 4:21 장막 줄을 그들에게서 뽑지 아니하겠느냐 그들이 죽나니 지혜가 있느니라