| Job 5:16 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "So the helpless has hope, And unrighteousness must shut its mouth. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Then the poor have hope while wrongdoing shuts its mouth.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. |
| ASV: | So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth. |
| BBE: | So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped. |
| DBY: | So the poor hath what he hopeth for, and unrighteousness stoppeth her mouth. |
| ERV: | So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. |
| JPS: | So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. |
| WBS: | So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. |
| WEB: | So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. |
| YLT: | And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth. |
| Job 5:16 Cross References |
| XREF: | Psalm 107:42 The upright see it and are glad; But all unrighteousness shuts its mouth.
(NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 5:16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity {r} stoppeth her mouth.
(r) If the wicked are compelled by God's works to shut their mouths, how much more they who profess God. |
| WES: | 5:16 So - So he obtains what he hoped for from God, to whom he committed his cause. Iniquity - Wicked men. Stoppeth - They are silenced and confounded, finding that not only the poor are got out of their snares, but the oppressors themselves are ensnared in them. |
| MHC: | 5:6-16 Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and night, summer and winter; but it is according to the will and counsel of God. We must not attribute our afflictions to fortune, for they are from God; nor our sins to fate, for they are from ourselves. Man is born in sin, and therefore born to trouble. There is nothing in this world we are born to, and can truly call our own, but sin and trouble. Actual transgressions are sparks that fly out of the furnace of original corruption. Such is the frailty of our bodies, and the vanity of all our enjoyments, that our troubles arise thence as the sparks fly upward; so many are they, and so fast does one follow another. Eliphaz reproves Job for not seeking God, instead of quarrelling with him. Is any afflicted? let him pray. It is heart's ease, a salve for every sore. Eliphaz speaks of rain, which we are apt to look upon as a little thing; but if we consider how it is produced, and what is produced by it, we shall see it to be a great work of power and goodness. Too often the great Author of all our comforts, and the manner in which they are conveyed to us, are not noticed, because they are received as things of course. In the ways of Providence, the experiences of some are encouragements to others, to hope the best in the worst of times; for it is the glory of God to send help to the helpless, and hope to the hopeless. And daring sinners are confounded, and forced to acknowledge the justice of God's proceedings. |
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