New King James Version
Job 5:11
11He sets on high those who are lowly, And those who mourn are lifted to safety.
Job 5:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
- New International Version (NIV)The lowly he sets on high, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
- English Standard Version (ESV)he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
- New Living Translation (NLT)He gives prosperity to the poor and protects those who suffer.
Context of Job 5:11
9Who does great things, and unsearchable, Marvelous things without number. 10He gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields. He sets on high those who are lowly, And those who mourn are lifted to safety. 12He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot carry out their plans. 13He catches the wise in their own craftiness, And the counsel of the cunning comes quickly upon them.
Read all of Job 5Job 5:11 word by word
לָשׂ֣וּם שְׁפָלִ֣ים לְמָר֑וֹם וְ֝קֹדְרִ֗ים שָׂ֣גְבוּ יֶֽשַׁע׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 5:11
- 1 Samuel 2:7The Lord makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up.
- Psalms 91:14“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.
- Psalms 107:41Yet He sets the poor on high, far from affliction, And makes their families like a flock.
- Ezekiel 17:24And all the trees of the field shall know that I, the Lord, have brought down the high tree and exalted the low tree, dried up the green tree and made the dry tree flourish; I, the Lord, have spoken and have done it.”
- Luke 1:52He has put down the mighty from their thrones, And exalted the lowly.
- Luke 6:21Blessed are you who hunger now, For you shall be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, For you shall laugh.
- James 1:9Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation,
- James 4:6But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”
- 1 Peter 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
- Deuteronomy 33:27The eternal God is your refuge, And underneath are the everlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you, And will say, ‘Destroy!’
- 1 Peter 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Commentaries on Job 5:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11To set up on high those that be low - He so distributes his providential blessings without partiality, that the land of the poor man is as well sunned and watered as that of the rich; so that he is thus set upon a level with the lords of the soil.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11To set up on high - That is, who sets up on high; or God exalts those who are low. From the works of nature, Eliphaz passes to the dealings of God with people, as designed to show that he was worthy of confidence. The first proof is, that he showed himself to be the friend of the humble and the afflicted, and often exalted those who were in lowly circumstances, in a manner which evinced his direct interposition. It is to be remembered here, that Eliphaz…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-16Verses 6-16 Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and night, summer and winter; but it is according to the will and counsel of God. We must not attribute our afflictions to fortune, for they are from God; nor our sins to fate, for they are from ourselves. Man is born in sin, and therefore born to trouble…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-16Eliphaz praised God as the creator and and the one who sustains the universe who performs wonders (5:9–10). He also praised God as the righteous judge who humbles the powerful and honors poor people (5:11–16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. Connected with Job 5:9. His "unsearchable" dealings are with a view to raise the humble and abase the proud (Lu 1:52). Therefore Job ought to turn humbly to Him.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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