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Job 5:27
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We have investigated this, and it is true!Hear it and understand it for yourself.
Look this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know it for your good."
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Behold, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good."
"We have checked this, and it is true, so hear it and decide what it means to you."
Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good."
"Behold this; we have investigated it, and so it is. Hear it, and know for yourself."
Look this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know it for your good."
Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.
Behold this; we have investigated it, and so it is.Hear it, and know for yourself."
Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself."
Our experience has proven these things to be true, so listen and learn.
"We've looked into this, and that's how it is; listen, and know that it's for your own good."
Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thyself.
"We have studied this and know it is true. So listen to us, and learn for yourself."
Lo this thing we have searched, and it is so; we have heard it; and you know it for your good.
Job, we have learned this by long study. It is true, so now accept it.
"Look, we have searched this out—it is true; hear it and know it yourself."
Consider this. We have searched it out; it is so. Hear it, and know it for yourself.
Lo, this is the matter, as we oure selues haue proued by experience. Therfore now that thou hearest it, take better hede to thy selff.
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.
Lo, this we our selues haue proued by experience, and euen thus it is: Hearken thou to it also, that thou mayest take heede to thy selfe.
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Loe this, wee haue searched it, so it is; heare it, and know thou it for thy good.
Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do thou reflect with thyself, if thou hast done anything wrong.
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Lo! this is so, as we han souyt; which thing herd, trete thou in minde.
See this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know it for your good.
Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good.
Behold, this we have searched out; It is true. Hear it, and know for yourself."
"We have studied life and found all this to be true. Listen to my counsel, and apply it to yourself."
See, this is what we have found, and it is true. Hear it, and know for yourself."
See, we have searched this out; it is true. Hear, and know it for yourself."
Lo! as for this, we have searched it out - so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.
Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.
Lo, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good."
Lo, this -- we searched it out -- it [is] right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!
"Yes, this is the way things are—my word of honor! Take it to heart and you won't go wrong."
"Behold this; we have investigated it, and so it is. Hear it, and know for yourself."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
we have searched: Job 8:8-10, Job 12:2, Job 15:9, Job 15:10, Job 15:17, Job 32:11, Job 32:12, Psalms 111:2, Proverbs 2:3-5
for thy good: Heb. for thyself, Job 22:2, Deuteronomy 10:13, Proverbs 9:12
Reciprocal: Job 6:24 - Teach me Job 13:1 - ear Proverbs 24:30 - went
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Lo this, we have searched it,.... This is the concluding part of Eliphaz's first oration or speech to Job; and in order to engage his attention to it, observes, that what he had said was not his own single opinion, but the sentiment of the rest of his friends; and that it was the result of laborious and diligent investigation; that they had searched the records of former times, and inquired of ancient people, as well as had made the strictest observations on things during their course of life;
so it [is]; and the sum and amount of all was what he had declared, and which they had found to be sure and certain, the truth of the matter; that it is an undoubted truth, which should not be disputed and called in question, but to be held as a first principle, which was this; that wicked men are punished for their sins, and that good men are never greatly afflicted, at least not to such a degree as to be stripped of all the necessaries of life, and to be in a most desolate and perishing condition; and since this had been so thoroughly investigated by them, and such "a probatum est" was written upon it, he exhorts Job to
hear it; agree to it, believe it, receive it, and make a proper use of it, as he hoped he would:
and know thou [it] for thy good; or "for thyself" s; take it to thyself, as belonging to thee, as suitable to thy case; apply it to thyself, learn some lessons from it, and make good use of it; which is what is proposed by all that has been said.
s דע לך "scito tibi", Montanus, Mercerus, &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Lo this - All this that I have said; the truth of all the remarks which I have made.
We have searched it - We have by careful observation of the course of events come to these conclusions. These are our views of the providence of God, and of the principles of his government, as far as we have had the opportunity of observing, and they are well worthy of your attention. The sentiments in these two chapters indicate close and accurate observation; and if we think that the observation was not always wholly accurate, or that the principles were carried further than facts would warrant, or that Eliphaz applied them with somewhat undue severity to the case of Job, we are to remember that this was in the infancy of the world, that they had few historical records, and that they had no written revelation. If they were favored with occasional revelations, as Eliphaz claimed (Job 4:12 ff), yet they were few in number, and at distant intervals, and the divine communications pertained to but few points.
Though it may without impropriety be maintained that some of the views of Eliphaz and his friends were not wholly accurate, yet we may safely ask, Where among the Greek and Roman sages can views of the divine government be found that equal these in correctness, or that are expressed with equal force and beauty? For profound and accurate observation, for beauty of thought and sublimity of expression, the sage of Teman will not fall behind the sages of Athens; and not the least interesting thing in the contemplation of the book of Job, is the comparison which we are almost of necessity compelled to make between the observations on the course of events which were made in Arabia, and those which were made by the philosophers of the ancient pagan world. Is it improper to suppose that one design of this book was to show how far the human mind could go, with the aid of occasional revelations on a few points, in ascertaining the principles of the divine administration, and to demonstrate that, after all, the mind needed a fuller revelation to enable man to comprehend the truths pertaining to the kingdom of God? “Hear it for thy good.” Margin, as in Hebrew “thyself.” These principles are such that they are of importance for you to understand and to apply.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 5:27. Lo this, we have searched it — What I have told thee is the sum of our wisdom and experience on these important points. These are established maxims, which universal experience supports. Know - understand, and reduce them to practice for thy good. Thus ends Eliphaz, the Temanite, "full of wise saws and ancient instances;" but he miserably perverted them in his application of them to Job's case and character. They contain, however, many wholesome truths, of which the wise in heart may make a very advantageous practical use.
THE predatory excursions referred to in Job 5:23 were not unfrequent among our own barbarous ancestors. An affecting picture of this kind is drawn by Shakespeare, from Holinshed's Chronicles, of the case of Macduff, whose castle was attacked in his absence by Macbeth and his wife and all his children murdered. A similar incident was the ground of the old heroic ballad of Hardicanute. When the veteran heard that a host of Norwegians had landed to pillage the country, he armed, and posted to the field to meet the invading foe. He slew the chief in battle, and routed his pillaging banditti. While this was taking place, another party took the advantage of his absence, attacked his castle, and carried off or murdered his lovely wife and family; which, being perceived on his return by the war and age-worn chief, is thus affectingly described by the unknown poet: -
Loud and chill blew the westlin wind,
Sair beat the heavy shower,
Mirk grew the nicht eir Hardyknute
Wan neir his stately tower:
His tower that us'd with torches bleise
To shine sae far at night,
Seim'd now as black as mourning weid,
Nae marvel, sair he sich'd.
"Thair's nae light in my lady's bowir,
Thair's nae light in my hall;
Nae blink shynes round my Fairly fair,
Nor ward stands on my wall.
"What bodes it, Thomas! Robert! say?"
Nae answer - speaks their dreid;
"Stand back, my sons, I'll be your gyde;"
But bye they pass'd with speid.
"As fast I haif sped owr Scotland's foes"
There ceis'd his brag of weir.
Sair schamt to mind ocht but his dame,
And maiden Fairly fair.
Black feir he felt; but what to feir
He wist not yet with dreid;
Sair schook his body, sair his limbs,
And all the warrior fled.
The ending of this poem is lost; but we here see that the castle of Hardicanute was surprised, and his family destroyed, or carried off, while he and his sons had been employed in defeating the invading Norwegians. Thank God! civilization, the offspring of the spread of Christianity, has put an end to these barbarous practices among us; but in the East, where Christianity is not, they flourish still. Britons! send out your Bible and your missionaries to tame these barbarians; for whom heathenism has done nothing, and the Koran next to nothing. Civilization itself, without the Bible, will do as little; for the civilized Greeks and Romans were barbarians, fell and murderous; living in envy and malice, hateful, hating one another, and offering hundreds at a time of human victims to their ruthless deities. Nothing but Christianity ever did, or even can, cure these evils.
