17 "Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,
17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
17 "I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare
17 "I've a thing or two to tell you, so listen up! I'm letting you in on my views;
17 "I will tell you, hear me; What I have seen I will declare,
17 "If you will listen, I will show you. I will answer you from my own experience.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 15:17
Commentary on Job 15:17-35
(Read Job 15:17-35)
Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish very miserably. Will the prosperity of presumptuous sinners end miserably as here described? Then let the mischiefs which befal others, be our warnings. Though no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them that are exercised thereby. No calamity, no trouble, however heavy, however severe, can rob a follower of the Lord of his favour. What shall separate him from the love of Christ?