--- title: "Job 5 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Job 5 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the si" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/job/5" --- [ Read](/kjv/job/5)[ Commentary](/study/job/5)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/job/5) Audio 1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?* 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.* 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither *is there* any to deliver *them*. 5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. 6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;* 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.** 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: 9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:** 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:* 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform *their* enterprise.* 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.* 15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. 16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. 17 Behold, happy *is* the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. 20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.* 21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.* 22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. 23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. 24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle *shall be* in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.** 25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed *shall be* great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.* 26 Thou shalt come to *thy* grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.* 27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it *is;* hear it, and know thou *it* for thy good.* [Job 4](/study/job/4) [Job 6](/study/job/6) ## Commentary To verse 1 CHAP. V. *Eliphaz sheweth that the wicked are always punished by an avenging God; on which account he highly extols the providence of God: he exhorts Job not to despise the chastening of the Almighty, and to attend diligently to what he says.* *Before Christ 1645.* ***[Job 5:1](/kjv/job/5/1)*****.*****Call now,*****&c.—** Eliphaz here urges further, that, supposing Job had been guilty of no very atrocious crime, yet the common frailties of human nature were abundantly sufficient to account for any afflictions which it should please God to lay upon man; but he takes care to let Job know, that they had a far worse opinion of him, whom he treats as profligate and abandoned, and consequently a proper object of divine vengeance: [Job 5:1-5](/kjv/job/5/1-5). Such, he tells him, is the course of things, as was plain from revelation; and if he was not content with this, he was at liberty, if he pleased, to apply to any of the other deities, and see if he could find better treatment. But were it his case, he would endeavour to reconcile himself in a more especial manner to the true God, who was infinitely more powerful than any or all the gods of the nations, and was not only able to deliver him, but would deliver him out of all his troubles: but then it must be attended with an entire submission to him, which could never be effectual without an ample confession and restitution; thereby acknowledging the justice of God's dealing with him: [Job 5:17](/kjv/job/5/17); [Job 5:27](/kjv/job/5/27). It was foolish, therefore, to fret and vex himself in vain, since death was all that he could expect as the issue in that way; whereas, if he submitted himself to God, he might expect not only a perfect restoration, but a long continuance in the enjoyments of a flourishing fortune. All this is delivered by Eliphaz in an authoritative way, as the result of an inquiry which he and his friends had made of God in Job's behalf: he had therefore nothing to do, but diligently to attend and apply himself to it, [Job 5:27](/kjv/job/5/27). Heath. Schultens renders the first words of the present verse, *make appeal now,*&c.; observing, that *call*and *answer*here have a judicial sense, and imply, that if the patriarch should be inclined to plead not guilty, he would meet with no one, either among men or *angels,*who would undertake the defence of his cause: for, says he, the word קדשׁים *kedoshim,*rendered *saints,*signifies the *angels,*superintendants (under the Almighty) over this visible world. 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