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Job 5:24
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You will know that your tent is secure,and nothing will be missing when you inspect your home.
You shall know that your tent is in shalom. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
You shall know that your tent is at peace, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
You will know that your tent is safe, because you will check the things you own and find nothing missing.
And you will know that your home will be secure, and when you inspect your domains, you will not be missing anything.
"You will know that your tent is secure, For you will visit your home and have nothing missing.
You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.
You will know that your tent is at peace,For you will visit your abode and fear no loss.
You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
Your home will be secure, and your sheep will be safe.
You will know that your tent is safe; you will look round your home and miss nothing.
And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou wilt survey thy fold, and miss nothing.
You will live in peace because your tent is safe. You will count your property and find nothing missing.
You shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall return to your habitation, and shall not sin.
Then you will live at peace in your tent; when you look at your sheep, you will find them safe.
And you shall know that your tent is safe, and you will inspect your fold, and you shall not be missing anything.
And you shall know that your tent is in peace; and you shall visit your home and shall miss nothing.
Yee thou shalt se, that thy dwellynge place shalbe in rest: thou shalt beholde thy substaunce, and be nomore punyshed for synne.
And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.
And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.
And thou shalt knowe that thy dwelling place shalbe in rest, and thou shalt visite thy habitation, & shalt not sinne.
And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall bee in peace; and thou shalt visite thy habitation, and shalt not sinne.
Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.
And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.
And thou schalt wite, that thi tabernacle hath pees, and thou visitynge thi fairnesse schalt not do synne.
And you shall know that your tent is in peace; And you shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle [will be] in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
You shall know that your tent is in peace; You shall visit your dwelling and find nothing amiss.
You will know that your home is safe. When you survey your possessions, nothing will be missing.
You will know that your tent is safe. You will look over what you have and see that nothing is gone.
You shall know that your tent is safe, you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
And thou shalt know that, at peace, is thy tent, and shalt visit thy fold, and miss nothing;
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty, thou shalt not sin.
You shall know that your tent is safe, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
And thou hast known that thy tent [is] peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,
"You will know that your tent is secure, For you will visit your abode and fear no loss.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thou shalt know: Job 18:6, Job 18:15, Job 18:21, Job 21:7-9, 1 Samuel 30:3, Isaiah 4:5, Isaiah 4:6
thy tabernacle: etc. or, peace is thy tabernacle, Psalms 25:13
thou shalt visit: Deuteronomy 28:6, Psalms 91:10, Psalms 121:7, Psalms 121:8
sin: or, err, Psalms 107:4, Psalms 107:40
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:9 - will keep Isaiah 41:3 - safely
Cross-References
So Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years in all, and he died.
When Seth was a hundred and five years old, he became the father of Enosh.
Enoch walked [in habitual fellowship] with God three hundred years after the birth of Methuselah and had other sons and daughters.
He rejoined his brothers and said, "The boy is not there; as for me, where shall I go [to hide from my father]?"
Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me [by causing the loss] of my children. Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin [from me]. All these things are [working] against me."
When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.
Thus says the LORD, "A voice is heard in Ramah, Lamentation (songs of mourning) and bitter weeping. Rachel (Israel) is weeping for her children; She refuses to be comforted for her children, Because they are gone."
"A VOICE WAS HEARD IN RAMAH, WEEPING AND GREAT MOURNING, RACHEL WEEPING FOR HER CHILDREN; SHE REFUSED TO BE COMFORTED, BECAUSE THEY WERE NO MORE."
Jesus said to him, "I assure you and most solemnly say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise."
but if we [really] walk in the Light [that is, live each and every day in conformity with the precepts of God], as He Himself is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another [He with us, and we with Him], and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin [by erasing the stain of sin, keeping us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations].
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle [shall be] in peace,.... Not a place of religious worship, though the Targum renders it an house of doctrine or instruction; for we read not of any such but the tabernacle of Moses, erected in the wilderness, and which was indeed about, or little after, the times of Job; but it cannot be reasonably thought he did or could attend there; nor the tabernacle of his body, now in great pain and anguish, in which there were no rest nor soundness, being filled with sore boils and burning ulcers; but his dwelling house, which was built as a tent or tabernacle: such were the houses of the eastern people, made to move from place to place, for the sake of pasturage for their flocks and herds, in which their wealth consisted; so Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, dwelt in tabernacles; and hence in later times more firm, fixed, and stable dwellings, were so called; David calls his palace the tabernacle of his house, Psalms 132:3; though this also includes all that dwelt in his house, his family; and the meaning is, that should he behave aright under the afflicting hand of God, his family should live in concord, harmony, and love; there should be no discord, animosity, and contention among them, but they should be at peace and in unity among themselves; as indeed Job's children were while he had them, and before this calamity came upon him; and that also they should be secure from enemies, and dwell unmolested by them; and be in the utmost safety, enjoying all kind of prosperity, inward and outward, temporal and spiritual; which the word peace includes, as used in eastern countries, whose common salutation was, "peace be with thee"; thereby wishing all kind of happiness: or the words may be rendered, "peace [shall be] thy tabernacle" i as is a good man's tabernacle: he dwells in God, who is all love, all peace, in whom there is no wrath or fury; he dwells by faith in Christ, who is his peace, his peace maker, and peace giver; and in whom he has peace amidst all the tribulation he meets with in the world; the peace of God, which passes all understanding, keeps and guards him in Christ, as in a garrison, safe and secure; and he enjoys much peace, as the fruit of the Spirit, arising from a view of interest in the blood, righteousness, and sacrifice of Christ; and when he dies he enters into peace, and dwells and abides in it as his everlasting mansion,
Isaiah 57:2; now all this, Eliphaz says, Job, behaving well, should know; that is, have an experience of it; should really enjoy it, and find it in fact true what he asserted:
and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin; meaning not his wife, as some interpreters, Jewish and Christian, understand it; and so in the Talmud k, the word being rendered "she that tarried at home",
Psalms 68:12; which is a description of a good housewife, that keeps at home and minds the affairs of her family; but rather it designs the same as his tabernacle in the preceding clause, his dwelling house, and signifies a fine, fair, and beautiful one; a spacious and goodly building, and well stored with rich household goods; and including his family also: and to "visit" this is to take care of his family, rule and govern them well, protect and defend them, and provide all things necessary for them; as well as to inspect into the affairs of his house, inquire, examine, and see how things are managed; to know the state, condition, and circumstances it is in; which is looking well to the ways of his household: and this he should do, and "not sin"; not that a man, even a good man, can so conduct himself always in his family as not to be guilty of any sin at all, but not of sin in common, or continually; at least not any gross and notorious ones: the sense is, that he should not sin himself, while making such a visit and inquiry, by an undue heat, excessive anger, by rash and passionate expressions, things not being entirely to his mind; or be the cause of sin in others, by provoking his children to wrath, by threatening and menacing his servants in a severe, boisterous, and blustering manner; but reproving both, as there may be occasion, in a mild and gentle way; or else not sin by conniving at it and not correcting for it, which was the fault of Eli: Ben Gersom thinks Eliphaz tacitly suggests, and strikes at, Job's indulgence to his children; and so Sephorno: the word used having the signification of wandering and straying, some take the sense to be this; that he should have a sure and certain dwelling place to come into, and abide in, and should not wander about l, or be as a stroller and vagabond in the earth: though this has sometimes been the case of good men; as of the godly in the times of the Maccabees, who wandered in deserts and mountains, in caves and dens of the earth; and even of the disciples of Christ, who had no certain dwelling place; yea, of Christ himself, who had not where to lay his head: rather, since the word signifies to miss the mark, and so be disappointed; in which sense it is used in Judges 20:16; the sense may be, that when he visited his habitation he should find nothing amiss or wanting, but everything should answer his expectations and wishes, so Aben Ezra; and Mr. Broughton renders it, "shalt not misprosper"; and others, "shalt no be frustrated" m; balked, disappointed of thine ends and views, designs, hopes, and wishes.
i כי שלום אהלך "quod pax tentorium tuum", Montanus, Bolducius; so Cocceius, Schmidt, Schultens. k T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 34. 1. Yebamot, fol. 62. 2. 63. 1. Sanhedrin, fol. 76. 2. l לא תחטא "non errabis, i.e. non eris erro et palans", Codurcus "non aberrabis", Beza, Piscator, Cocceius. m "Nec votis frustrabere", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace - Thy tent - אהלך 'âhelēkāh - showing that it was common then to dwell in tents. The sense is, that when he was away from home he would have confidence that his dwelling was secure, and his family safe. This would be an assurance producing no small degree of consolation in a country abounding in wild beasts and robbers. Such is the nature of the blessing which Eliphaz says the man would have who put his confidence in God, and committed his cause to him. To a certain extent this was, and is, undoubtedly true. A man cannot indeed have miraculous assurance when from home, that his wife and children are still alive, and in health; nor can he be certain that his dwelling is not wrapped in flames, or that it has been preserved from the intrusion of evil-minded men. But he may feel assured that all is under the wise control of God; that whatever occurs will be by his permission and direction, and will tend to ultimate good. He may also, with calmness and peace, commit his home with all that is dear to him to God, and feel that in his hands all is safe.
And thou shalt visit thy habitation - That is, on the return from a journey.
And not sin - This is a very unhappy translation. The true sense is thou shalt not miss thy dwelling; thou shalt not wander away lost, to return no more. The word used here, and which is rendered “sin” in our common version, is חטא châṭâ'. It is true that it is commonly rendered to sin, and that it often has this sense. But it properly means “to miss;” that is, not to hit the mark, spoken of a slinger. Judges 20:16; then to make a false step, to stumble or fall, Proverbs 19:2. It thus accords exactly in sense with the Greek ἁμαρτάνω hamartanō. Here the original sense of the Hebrew word should bo retained, meaning that he would not miss the way to his dwelling; that is, that he would be permitted to return to it in safety. Gesenius, however, renders it, “thou musterest thy pasture (flocks), and missest naught:” that is, nothing is gone; all thy flocks are there. But the more obvious sense, and a sense which the connection demands, is that which refers the whole description to a man who is on a journey, and who is exposed to the dangers of wild beasts, and to the perils of a rough and stony way, but who is permitted to visit his home without missing it or being disappointed. A great variety ofinterpretations have been given of the passage, which may be seen in Rosenmuller and Good. Many suppose it means that he should review his domestic aflfairs, and find all to his mind; or should find that everything was in its place, or was as it should be. It can, not be doubted that the Hebrew word “visit” (פקד pâqad) will bear this interpretation, but that above proposed seems to me best to suit the connection. The margin correctly renders it, err.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 5:24. Thou shalt know — Thou shalt be so fully satisfied of the friendly disposition of all thy neighbours, that thou shalt rest secure in thy bed, and not be afraid of any danger, though sleeping in thy tent in the field; and when thou returnest from thy country excursions, thou shalt find that thy habitation has been preserved in peace and prosperity, and that thou hast made no mistake in thy trust, in thy confidence, or in thy confederates.
The word אהלך oholecha, "thy tabernacle," means simply a tent, or moveable dwelling, composed of poles, pins, and cloth, or skin, to be pitched any where in a few moments, and struck again with the same ease.
The word נוך navecha, which we properly translate thy habitation, signifies a solid, permanent dwelling-place. ee Joshua 22:4, Joshua 22:6-8; 2 Samuel 18:17; 2 Samuel 19:8; 1 Kings 12:16; Psalms 52:7; Psalms 91:10; Psalms 132:3; Lamentations 2:4; Malachi 2:12; and with these passages compare the place in the text.
As to תחטא techeta, which we translate thou shalt not SIN, it comes from חטא chata, to err, to mistake, to miss the mark: hence to sin, transgress God's laws, seeking for happiness in forbidden and unlawful things, and therefore missing the mark, because in them happiness is not to be found: and it is very likely, from the connection above, that to mistake or err is its meaning in this place. I need not add, that the Arab chiefs, who had their castles or strong holds, frequently in their country excursions lodged in tents in the open fields; and that on such occasions a hostile neighbour sometimes took advantage of their absence, attacked and pillaged their houses, and carried off their families and household. See at the end of this chapter. Job 5:27.
