the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Job 15:15
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If God puts no trust in his holy onesand the heavens are not pure in his sight,
Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
God places no trust in his holy ones, and even the heavens are not pure in his eyes.
If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
"Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones (angels); Indeed, the heavens are not pure in His sight—
"Behold, He has no trust in His holy ones, And the heavens are not pure in His sight;
Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.
Behold, He puts no faith in His holy ones,And the heavens are not pure in His sight;
If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
and neither are angels— not in the sight of God. If God doesn't trust his angels,
God doesn't trust even his holy ones; no, even the heavens are not innocent in his view.
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
God does not even trust his angels. He does not even think the sky is pure.
Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Why, God does not trust even his angels; even they are not pure in his sight.
Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes.
Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His eyes.
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;
Behold, He putteth no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.
Beholde, he putteth no trust in his Saints, yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.
Beholde he doth not trust his sainctes, yea, the very heauens are not cleane in his sight:
Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Lo! noon among hise seyntis is vnchaungable, and heuenes ben not cleene in his siyt.
Look, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his eyes:
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
If God puts no trust in His saints, And the heavens are not pure in His sight,
Look, God does not even trust the angels. Even the heavens are not absolutely pure in his sight.
See, God puts no trust in His holy ones. The heavens are not pure in His eyes.
God puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
Lo! in his holy ones, he putteth not confidence, and, the heavens, are not pure in his eyes:
Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.
Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
"Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones, And the heavens are not pure in His sight;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he putteth: Job 4:18, Job 25:5, Isaiah 6:2-5
Reciprocal: Job 5:1 - and to which Job 26:11 - are astonished Psalms 113:6 - humbleth Habakkuk 1:13 - of Romans 3:20 - in his sight Colossians 1:22 - in his
Cross-References
It happened after these actes, yt the worde of ye LORDE came vnto Abra in a vysion, and sayde: Feare not Abram, I am thy shylde and thy exceadinge greate rewarde.
But Abram sayde: LORDE LORDE, what wilt thou geue me? I go childles, and the seruaunt of my house (this Eleasar of Damascos) hath a sonne.
And he sayde vnto him: I am ye LORDE, yt brought the from Vr out of Chaldea, to geue ye this londe to possesse it.
And he sayde vnto him: Take a cow of thre yeare olde, and a she goate of thre yeare olde, and a ramme of thre yeare olde, and a turtyll doue, and a yonge pigeon.
And he sayde vnto Abram: knowe this of a suertye, that thy sede shalbe a strauger, in a londe that is not theirs. And they shall make bonde men of them, and intreate them euell foure hundreth yeares.
And after the fourth generacion they shall come hither agayne, for the wickednes of ye Amorites is not yet full.
the Kenytes, the Kenizites, the Kydmonites,
I am a strauger and an indweller amonge you, geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I maye bury my coarse by me.
Then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the dubble caue of the felde, that lyeth ouer before Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the londe of Canaan.
& fell sicke, and dyed, & was gathered vnto his people, whan he was olde, & had lyued ynough: and his sonnes Esau & Iacob buried him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints,.... In holy men, set apart for himself by his grace, whose sins are expiated by the blood of his Son, and whose hearts are sanctified by his Spirit, and who live holy lives and conversations, as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; these, though he trusts many of them with much, as the prophets of old with the messages of his grace and will, and the ministers of the word with treasure, in their earthen vessels, the sacred "depositum" of the glorious Gospel, with gifts of grace, fitting them for their work, and with the care of the souls of men; yet he trusts none of them with themselves, with the redemption and salvation of their souls, with the regeneration and sanctification of their hearts, and with their preservation to eternal glory; he has put those into the hands of his Son and Spirit, and keeps them by his power through faith unto salvation: the Targum renders it, in his saints above, in the saints in heaven, in glorified men; he is there their all in all; as their happiness, so their safety and protection; see an instance of his care and preservation of them after the resurrection, when in a perfect state, Revelation 20:8; or this may be understood of the angels, who sometimes are called saints, Deuteronomy 33:2; who though they have been trusted with many things to impart to the sons of men, yet not with the salvation of men, nor even with the secret of it; they were not of God's privy council when the affair was debated and settled; nor with other secrets, as the day and hour of the last judgment, the coming of the Son of Man: or the sense may be, "he putteth no perfection or stability" d in them, that is, perfection in comparison of his; for if theirs were equal to his, they would be gods, which it is impossible to be, or for God to make them such; and likewise such stability as to have been able to have stood of themselves, which it appears they had not, since many of them fell, and the rest needed confirming grace, which they have by Christ, the Head of all principalities and powers:
yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight; heaven born men, partakers of the heavenly calling, whose hearts and affections are set on heavenly things, and have their conversation in heaven; yet these, in the sight of a pure and holy God, and in comparison of him, are impure and unholy; or they of heaven, as Mr. Broughton renders it, the inhabitants of heaven; the angels on high, as the Targum paraphrases it; these are charged by him with folly, and they, conscious of their imperfection with respect to him, cover their faces with their wings, while they celebrate the perfection of his holiness, who is so glorious in it; though the natural heavens may be intended, at least not excluded, and the luminous bodies in them, as Bildad seems to explain it, Job 25:5; the stars are reckoned the more dense and thick part of the heavens, the moon has its spots, and by later discoveries it seems the sun is not without them, and the heavens are often covered with clouds and darkness, and the present ones will be purified with fire at the general conflagration, which supposes them unclean, and they shall pass away, and new ones succeed, which implies imperfection in the former, or there would be no need of others; this is the proof Eliphaz gives of what he had suggested in Job 15:14.
d לא יאמין "non posuit stabilitatem", Pagninus; "immutabilitatem, sive perfectionem absolutam", Vatablus; "firmum opus non produxit", Tigurine version; "non crediturns esset firmitatem", Junius & Tremellius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints - In Job 4:18, it is, “in his servants,” but no doubt the same thing is intended. The reference is to the angels, called there servants, and here saints קדשׁים qôdeshı̂ym, holy ones; see the notes at Job 4:18.
Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight - In Job 4:18, “and his angels he charged with folly.” The general idea is the same. God is so holy that all things else seem to be impure. The very heavens seem to be unclean when compared with him. We are not to understand this as meaning that the heavens are defiled; that there is sin and corruption there, and that they are loathsome in the sight of God. The object is to set forth the exceeding purity of God, and the greatness of his holiness. This sentiment seemed to be a kind of proverb, or a commonplace in theology among the sages of Arabia. Thus, it occurs in Job 25:5, in the speech of Bildad, when he had nothing to say but to repeat the most common-place moral and theological adages -
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not;
Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight:
How much less man, that is a worm,
And the son of man, which is a worm!
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 15:15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. — The Vulgate has, "Behold, among his saints, none is immutable; and the heavens are not clean in his sight."
Coverdale. - Beholde, he hath found unfaithfulnesse amonge his owne sanctes, yea the very heavens are unclene in his sight.
Eliphaz uses the same mode of speech, Job 4:17; where see the notes. Nothing is immutable but GOD: saints may fall; angels may fall; all their goodness is derived and dependent. The heavens themselves have no purity compared with his.
