Job 4:18
Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his [heavenly] agents with folly.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
In Context
17Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Cross References
Job 25:4How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
Psalms 103:20Bless LORD, ye his [heavenly] agents, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, hearkening to the voice of his word.
Isaiah 6:2Above him stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings, with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
Jude 1:6And the heavenly agents who did not keep their own principality, but left their own habitation, he has kept reserved in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
Matthew Henry on Job 4:13-21
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, 14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: 16 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, 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his… Read the whole commentary →