Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. Call now, if there be any ] This appears to be a strong irony.
From whom among those whose foundations are in the dust, and who are crushed before the moth, canst thou expect succour? To which of the saints wilt thou turn? ] To whom among the holy ones, ( µydq kedoshim,) or among those who are equally dependent on Divine support with thyself, and can do no good but as influenced and directed by God, canst thou turn for help? Neither angel nor saint can help any man unless sent especially from God; and all prayers to them must be foolish and absurd, not to say impious. Can the channel afford me water, if the fountain cease to emit it?
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - 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 they ever behave like him under their sufferings? The term "saints," holy, or more strictly, consecrated ones, seems in all age to have been applied to the people of God, through the Sacrifice slai in the covenant of their reconciliation. Eliphaz doubts not that the sin of sinners directly tends to their ruin. They kill themselves by some lust or other; therefore, no doubt, Job has done some foolis thing, by which he has brought himself into this condition. The allusion was plain to Job's former prosperity; but there was n evidence of Job's wickedness, and the application to him was unfair an severe.
Original Hebrew קרא7121 נא4994 הישׁ3426 עונך6030 ואל413 מי4310 מקדשׁים6918 תפנה׃6437
