51 "Call if you will, but who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Other Translations of Job 5:1

King James Version

51 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn turn: or, look?

English Standard Version

51 "Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

The Message

51 "Call for help, Job, if you think anyone will answer! To which of the holy angels will you turn?

New King James Version

51 "Call out now; Is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn?

New Living Translation

51 "Cry for help, but will anyone answer you? Which of the angels will help you?

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 5:1

Commentary on Job 5:1-5

(Read Job 5:1-5)

Eliphaz here calls upon Job to answer his arguments. Were any of the saints or servants of God visited with such Divine judgments as Job, or did they ever behave like him under their sufferings? The term, "saints," holy, or more strictly, consecrated ones, seems in all ages to have been applied to the people of God, through the Sacrifice slain in the covenant of their reconciliation. Eliphaz doubts not that the sin of sinners directly tends to their ruin. They kill themselves by some lust or other; therefore, no doubt, Job has done some foolish thing, by which he has brought himself into this condition. The allusion was plain to Job's former prosperity; but there was no evidence of Job's wickedness, and the application to him was unfair and severe.