When men are cast down - The meaning of this is, probably, when people are usually cast down, or in times of trial and calamity which pros…

There is lifting up. —This may be its meaning, but some understand it in a bad sense: “When men are cast down, then you will say, …

When [men] are cast down
Wicked men are brought down from a state of prosperity to a state of adversity, are in low …

The answer of Eliphaz wrongly implied that Job had previously not known God, and that prosperity in this life would follow his sincere conversion. …

In the preceding words, Eliphaz seems to have charged Job with not believing that God has providence in human affairs. Now, as a consequence, he ap…