When they cast you down, and you say, ‘Exaltation will come!’ Then He will save the humble person.
Parallel translations
- WEB When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
- KJV When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
- BSB When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.
- NASB “When they have brought you low, you will speak with confidence, And He will save the humble person.
- NLT If people are in trouble and you say, ‘Help them,’ God will save them.
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Quick answer
Eliphaz says that when others are brought low, Job will speak restoration, for God saves the humble. He highlights God's grace toward the lowly.
Overview
Eliphaz affirms the genuine biblical truth that God saves the humble and lifts up the downcast (cf. Ps 138:6; James 4:6). The principle is sound and gospel-shaped, for God exalts the lowly through Christ. The irony remains that Job is being humbled, yet Eliphaz cannot see God's saving purpose at work in his friend's affliction.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Jas 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Job 5:19–27He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
- Luke 1:52He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.
- 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Matt 23:12Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
- Ps 91:14–16“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
- Luke 18:9–14He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
- Isa 66:2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
- Ps 92:9–11For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered.
- Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Prov 29:23A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
- Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
- Ps 138:6For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.
- Ps 9:2–3I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
- Ezek 21:26–27thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
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