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A Challenge, Not Comfort
Commentators explain that Eliphaz is not offering sincere advice. He is using sharp, rhetorical language, almost like a lawyer, to challenge Job. The phrase 'Call now' is interpreted as a sarcastic dare for Job to try and bring a legal case against God, implying such an action would be futile and arrogant.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 5:1
18th Century
Theologian
Call now - The expressions used here, as Noyes has well observed, seem to be derived from the law, where the word “call” denotes th…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 5:1
19th Century
Bishop
Call now.— The speaker now becomes more personal and direct in his tone and bearing. He insinuates that Job is “unwise” a…
John Gill
On Job 5:1
17th Century
Pastor
Call now, if there be any that will answer you
That is, call upon God, which, if seriously, and not ironically spoken…
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Matthew Henry
On Job 5:1–5
17th Century
Minister
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 th…