Job 5:1 (BSB)
“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
Commentary on Job 5:1
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 5:1-5: 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.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 5:1: Call now, if there be any that will answer thee,.... That is, call upon God, which, if seriously, and not ironically spoken, was good advice; God is to be called upon, and especially in times of trouble; and invocation is to be made in faith, in sincerity, and with fervency, and to be accompanied with confession of sin, and repentance for it; and sooner or...
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 5:1: Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? (a) He wills Job to consider the example of all who have lived or live godly, whether any of them are like him in raging against God as he does.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 5:1-5: Job 5:1-5 1 Call now, - is there any one who will answer thee? And to whom of the holy ones wilt thou turn? 2 For he is a fool who is destroyed by complaining, And envy slays the simple one. 3 I, even I, have seen a fool taking root: Then I had to curse his habitation suddenly.