Wesley Corpus

Chapter XV Eliphaz reproves Job for justifying himself, ver. 1 - 13. Persuades him to humble himself before God, ver. 14 - 16. Describes the misery of wicked men, ver. 17 - 35. Fill - Satisfy his mind and conscience. East wind - With discourses not only unprofitable, but also pernicious both to himself and others; as the east - wind was in those parts. Castest off - Heb. thou makes void fear; the fear of God, piety and religion, by thy unworthy speeches of God, and by those false and pernicious principles, that God makes no difference between good and bad in the course of his providence, but equally prospers or afflicts both: thou dost that which tends to the subversion of the fear and worship of God. Restrainest prayer - Thou dost by thy words and principles, as far as in thee lies, banish prayer out of the world, by making it useless and unprofitable to men. Uttereth - Thy words discover the naughtiness of thy heart. Crafty - Thou speakest wickedly, and craftily: thou coverest thy impious principles with fair pretences of piety. Are - Are those comforts, which we have propounded to thee on condition of thy repentance, small and contemptible in thine eyes Secret - Hast thou any secret and peculiar way of comfort which is unknown to us, and to all other men Why - Why dost thou suffer thyself to be transported by the pride of thine heart, to use such unworthy expressions Wink - Why dost thou look with such an angry, supercilious, and disdainful look Against God - Eliphaz here does in effect give the cause on Satan's side, and affirms that Job had done as he said he would, Curse God to his face. Saints - In his angels, chap.4:18, who are called his saints or holy ones, Deut 33:2 Psal 103:20. Who though they were created holy, yet many of them fell. Heavens - The angels that dwell in heaven; heaven being put for its inhabitants. None of these are pure, simply and perfectly, and comparatively to God. The angels are pure from corruption, but not from imperfection. Who - Who besides his natural proneness to sin, has contracted habits of sinning; and sins as freely, as greedily and delightfully, as men, especially in those hot countries, drink up water.