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Job 5:27

Job 5:27
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Lo this, we have searched it,.... This is the concluding part of Eliphaz's first oration or speech to Job; and in order to engage his attention to it, observes, that what he had said was not his own…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Lo this - All this that I have said; the truth of all the remarks which I have made. We have searched it - We have by careful observation of the course of events come to these conclusions. These are…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 5:17-27

Eliphaz, in this concluding paragraph of his discourse, gives Job (what he himself knew not how to take) a comfortable prospect of the issue of his afflictions, if he did but recover his temper and…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 5:17-27

The imagination of Eliphaz himself kindles as he contemplates the universal goodness of God. And Job seems to him happy in being made the object even of God's afflictions, for He afflicts only with…