 | Moses Maimonides - Religion - 2007 - 485 pages
...the eyes of God that no punishment should be inflicted on him. " Behold, he putteth no trust in hJ8 servants ; and his angels he chargeth with folly :...how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay," etc. (iv. 17-18), Eliphaz never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice,... | |
 | Alicia Ostriker - Religion - 2007 - 183 pages
...to laugh at famine and war, have children "as the grass of the earth," and live to a ripe old age. "Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?" (4.17) asks Eliphaz the Temanite, thinking he is only saying what everyone knows. But Job will have... | |
 | James E. Smith - Religion - 2007 - 878 pages
...interpreted to mean that first there was an eerie silence, then the being spoke. 2. The translation "Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?" is possible but not likely. The charge against Job was that he made God unrighteous, not that he claimed... | |
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Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall... 
