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NASB: | 'He puts no trust even in His servants; And against His angels He charges error. (NASB ©1995) | ||
GWT: | "You see, God doesn't trust his own servants, and he accuses his angels of making mistakes.(GOD'S WORD®) | ||
KJV: | Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: | ||
ASV: | Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly: | ||
BBE: | Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels; | ||
DBY: | Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly: | ||
ERV: | Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; and his angels he chargeth with folly: | ||
JPS: | Behold, He putteth no trust in His servants, and His angels He chargeth with folly; | ||
WBS: | Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: | ||
WEB: | Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error. | ||
YLT: | Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.' | ||
Job 4:18 Cross References | |||
XREF: | Job 15:15 "Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones, And the heavens are not pure in His sight; (NASB ©1995) | ||
Commentaries and Concordances | |||
GSB: | 4:18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his {m} angels he charged with folly: (m) If God finds imperfection in his angels when they are not maintained by his power, how much more shall he lay folly to man's charge when he would justify himself against God? | ||
WES: | 4:18 Servants - They are called his servants by way of eminency, that general name being here appropriated to the chief of the kind, to intimate that sovereign dominion which the great God hath over the angels, and much more over men. With folly - Without all doubt, this refers to those angels who foolishly and wickedly fell from God. | ||
MHC: | 4:12-21 Eliphaz relates a vision. When we are communing with our own hearts, and are still, Ps 4:4, then is a time for the Holy Spirit to commune with us. This vision put him into very great fear. Ever since man sinned, it has been terrible to him to receive communications from Heaven, conscious that he can expect no good tidings thence. Sinful man! shall he pretend to be more just, more pure, than God, who being his Maker, is his Lord and Owner? How dreadful, then, the pride and presumption of man! How great the patience of God! Look upon man in his life. The very foundation of that cottage of clay in which man dwells, is in the dust, and it will sink with its own weight. We stand but upon the dust. Some have a higher heap of dust to stand upon than others but still it is the earth that stays us up, and will shortly swallow us up. Man is soon crushed; or if some lingering distemper, which consumes like a moth, be sent to destroy him, he cannot resist it. Shall such a creature pretend to blame the appointments of God? Look upon man in his death. Life is short, and in a little time men are cut off. Beauty, strength, learning, not only cannot secure them from death, but these things die with them; nor shall their pomp, their wealth, or power, continue after them. Shall a weak, sinful, dying creature, pretend to be more just than God, and more pure than his Maker? No: instead of quarrelling with his afflictions, let him wonder that he is out of hell. Can a man be cleansed without his Maker? Will God justify sinful mortals, and clear them from guilt? or will he do so without their having an interest in the righteousness and gracious help of their promised Redeemer, when angels, once ministering spirits before his throne, receive the just recompence of their sins? Notwithstanding the seeming impunity of men for a short time, though living without God in the world, their doom is as certain as that of the fallen angels, and is continually overtaking them. Yet careless sinners note it so little, that they expect not the change, nor are wise to consider their latter end. | ||
CONC: | Angels Behold Charged Charges Chargeth Credence Error Faith Folly Messengers Places Praise Puts Putteth Sees Servants Setteth Truly Trust Trusteth | ||
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NEXT: | Angels Charged Charges Chargeth Credence Error Faith Folly Messengers Places Praise Puts Putteth Servants Trust Trusteth | New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org. GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of God's Word to the Nations. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. All rights reserved. | |
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