Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
Parallel translations
- WEB “Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
- BSB “Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you 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
Cross-references · 10
- Job 15:15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
- Job 4:18Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
- Job 15:8–10Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
- Isa 41:21–23Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
- Isa 41:1Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
- Heb 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
- Eph 1:1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
- Ps 106:16They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
- Ps 16:3But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
- Deut 33:2–3And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
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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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