Are the consolations of God too small for you, And the word spoken gently with you?
Parallel translations
- WEB Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
- KJV Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
- BSB Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to 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 the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
- Job 13:2What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
- 1 Kgs 22:24Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah on the cheek, and said, “Which way did Yahweh’s Spirit go from me to speak to you?”
- Job 5:8–26“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
- Job 36:16Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
- 2 Cor 7:6Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
- Job 11:13–19“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
- Job 15:8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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