Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 3. I have seen the foolish taking root ] I have seen wicked men for a time in prosperity, and becoming established in the earth; but I well knew, from God's manner of dealing with men, that they must soon be blasted. I even ventured to pronounce their doom; for I knew that, in the order of God's providence, that was inevitable. I cursed his habitation.
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 אני589 ראיתי7200 אויל191 משׁרישׁ8327 ואקוב5344 נוהו5116 פתאם׃6597
