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Job 5:11

Job 5:11
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

To set up on high those that be low,.... Not the low plants, which, through rain, are made to run up on high, though there is a truth in that; but husbandmen and gardeners, and such like persons, in…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

To set up on high - That is, who sets up on high; or God exalts those who are low. From the works of nature, Eliphaz passes to the dealings of God with people, as designed to show that he was worthy…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 5:6-16

Eliphaz, having touched Job in a very tender part, in mentioning both the loss of his estate and the death of his children as the just punishment of his sin, that he might not drive him to despair,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

to set up If this construction be adopted, the watering of the earth, Job 5:5, must be regarded as the means to this which is effected in Job 5:5. He watereth the fields, giving abundant pasture and…