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Job 5:1
1“Call if you will, but who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
Job 5:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Call out now; Is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn?
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Cry for help, but will anyone answer you? Which of the angels will help you?
Context of Job 5:1
“Call if you will, but who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? 2Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple. 3I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
Read all of Job 5Job 5:1 word by word
קְֽרָא־נָ֭א הֲיֵ֣שׁ עוֹנֶ֑ךָּ וְאֶל־מִ֖י מִקְּדֹשִׁ֣ים תִּפְנֶֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 5:1
- Job 15:8Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
- Isaiah 41:1“Be silent before me, you islands! Let the nations renew their strength! Let them come forward and speak; let us meet together at the place of judgment.
- Hebrews 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
- Job 4:18If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
- Job 15:15If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
- Deuteronomy 33:2He said: “The Lord came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran. He came with myriads of holy ones from the south, from his mountain slopes.
- Psalms 16:3I say of the holy people who are in the land, “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”
- Psalms 106:16In the camp they grew envious of Moses and of Aaron, who was consecrated to the Lord.
- Ephesians 1:1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To God’s holy people in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Commentaries on Job 5:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Call now, if there be any - This appears to be a strong irony. From whom among those whose foundations are in the dust, and who are crushed before the moth, canst thou expect succor? To which of the saints wilt thou turn? - To whom among the holy ones, (קדשים kedoshim ), or among those who are equally dependent on Divine support with thyself, and can do no good but as influenced and directed by God, canst thou turn for help? Neither angel nor saint can…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Call now - The expressions used here, as Noyes has well observed, seem to be derived from the law, where the word “call” denotes the language of the complainant, and answer that of the defendant. According to this, the meaning of the words “call now” is, in jus voca: that is, call the Deity to account, or bring an action against him: or more properly, enter into an argument or litigation, as before a tribunal; see the notes at Isaiah 41:1, where similar…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Eliphaz urges that the sin of sinners in their ruin. (1-5) God is to be regarded in affliction. (6-16) The happy end of God's correction. (17-27) Verses 1-5 Eliphaz here calls upon Job to answer his arguments. Were any of the saints or servants of God visited with such Divine judgments as Job, or did they ever behave like him under their sufferings? The term, "saints," holy, or more strictly, consecrated ones, seems in all ages to have been applied to the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1The holy ones probably refers back to the angels mentioned in 4:18. They are "holy ones" because of they are close to God, not because they have achieved moral perfection (15:15; Daniel 4:14; 8:13; Zechariah 14:5).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271. 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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