translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JOB

label: NET study note

text: Of course the point is that God does not charge Job because he is righteous; the point is he must be unrighteous.


text: Eliphaz is giving to Job the thoughts and words of the pagans, for they say, “How does God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?” (see Ps 73:11; 94:11 ).


text: The word is “circle; dome”; here it is the dome that covers the earth, beyond which God sits enthroned. A. B. Davidson ( Job , 165) suggests “on the arch of heaven” that covers the earth.


text: The idea suggested here is that God is not only far off, but he is unconcerned as he strolls around heaven – this is what Eliphaz says Job means.


text: In Ps 2:4 it was God who mocked the wicked by judging them.