“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
Parallel translations
- WEB “Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
- KJV Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
- NKJV “Call out now; Is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn?
- NASB “Call now, is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn?
- NLT “Cry for help, but will anyone answer you? Which of the angels will help you?
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Quick answer
Eliphaz challenges Job to call out and see whether any holy one will answer him. He implies Job has no advocate among the angels and should not appeal beyond God's settled justice.
Overview
Opening a new section, Eliphaz taunts Job to find some heavenly being who will take his side, suggesting none will. Ironically, Job will later long for exactly such a mediator or witness in heaven. The deep need Eliphaz dismisses is the very need the gospel meets, for believers do have an Advocate, Jesus Christ the righteous, who intercedes at God's right hand.
Cross-references & the web
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- Job 15:15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
- Job 4:18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
- Job 15:8–10Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?
- Isa 41:21–23“Present your case,” says the LORD. “Submit your arguments,” says the King of Jacob.
- Isa 41:1“Be silent before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come forward and testify; let us together draw near for judgment.
- Heb 12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us.
- Eph 1:1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:
- Ps 106:16In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.
- Ps 16:3As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.
- Deut 33:2–3He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
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Christ at the center
Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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