24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
24 And thou shalt know H3045 that thy tabernacle H168 shall be in peace; H7965 and thou shalt visit H6485 thy habitation, H5116 and shalt not sin. H2398
24 And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.
24 And thou hast known that thy tent `is' peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,
24 And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou wilt survey thy fold, and miss nothing.
24 You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
24 And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
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Commentary on Job 5 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 5
Eliphaz, in the foregoing chapter, for the making good of his charge against Job, had vouched a word from heaven, sent him in a vision. In this chapter he appeals to those that bear record on earth, to the saints, the faithful witnesses of God's truth in all ages (v. 1). They will testify,
Job 5:1-5
A very warm dispute being begun between Job and his friends, Eliphaz here makes a fair motion to put the matter to a reference. In all debates perhaps the sooner this is done the better if the contenders cannot end it between themselves. So well assured is Eliphaz of the goodness of his own cause that he moves Job himself to choose the arbitrators (v. 1): Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; that is,
Now there are two things which Eliphaz here maintains, and in which he doubts not but all the saints concur with him:-
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, here begins to encourage him, and puts him in a way to make himself easy. Now he very much changes his voice (Gal. 4:20), and speaks in the accents of kindness, as if he would atone for the hard words he had given him.
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 accommodate himself to them. Observe,