Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
Parallel translations
- WEB Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
- BSB Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?
- NKJV Are the consolations of God too small for you, And the word spoken gently with you?
- NASB “Are the consolations of God too little for you, Or the word spoken gently to you?
- NLT “Is God’s comfort too little for you? Is his gentle word not enough?
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Quick answer
Eliphaz asks if God's gentle consolations are too small for Job. He frames the friends' counsel as God's own comfort.
Overview
Eliphaz wonders whether 'the consolations of God' and the gentle word offered are too small for Job. He presumes that their counsel equals divine comfort that Job has spurned. The irony is that their words have not truly comforted Job, exposing the danger of mistaking one's own opinions for the consolations of God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- 2 Cor 1:3–5Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
- Job 13:2What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
- 1 Kgs 22:24But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
- Job 5:8–26I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
- Job 36:16Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
- 2 Cor 7:6Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
- Job 11:13–19If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
- Job 15:8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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