_SO THESE THREE MEN CEASED TO ANSWER JOB, BECAUSE HE WAS RIGHTEOUS IN HIS OWN EYES._ Prose (poetry begins with "I am young," Job 32:6). Verse 1. BECAUSE ... - and because they could not proves to him that he was unrighteous. Verse 2. ELIHU - meaning 'God is Yahweh.' In his name and character, as... [ Continue Reading ]
_I SAID, DAYS SHOULD SPEAK, AND MULTITUDE OF YEARS SHOULD TEACH WISDOM._ Days - i:e., the aged (Job 15:10).... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THERE IS A SPIRIT IN MAN: AND THE INSPIRATION OF THE ALMIGHTY GIVETH THEM UNDERSTANDING._ Elihu claims inspiration, as a divinely commissioned messenger to Job (Job 33:6; Job 33:23); and that claim is not contradicted in Job 42:1. Translate, 'But the spirit (which God puts) in man, and the ins... [ Continue Reading ]
_GREAT MEN ARE NOT ALWAYS WISE: NEITHER DO THE AGED UNDERSTAND JUDGMENT._ Great - rather, old (Job 32:6). so the Hebrew in Genesis 25:13, "Greater, less," for the older, the younger. JUDGMENT - what is right.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE I SAID, HEARKEN TO ME; I ALSO WILL SHEW MINE OPINION._ Rather, I say. OPINION - rather, knowledge х_ DEE`IY_ (H1843)].... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEHOLD, I WAITED FOR YOUR WORDS; I GAVE EAR TO YOUR REASONS, WHILST YE SEARCHED OUT WHAT TO SAY._ Therefore, Elihu was present from the first. Therefore, Elihu was present from the first. REASONS - literally, understanding; i:e., the meaning intended by words. WHILST - I waited until you shoul... [ Continue Reading ]
_YEA, I ATTENDED UNTO YOU, AND, BEHOLD, THERE WAS NONE OF YOU THAT CONVINCED JOB, OR THAT ANSWERED HIS WORDS:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_LEST YE SHOULD SAY, WE HAVE FOUND OUT WISDOM: GOD THRUSTETH HIM DOWN, NOT MAN._ This has been so ordered, "lest ye should" pride yourselves on having overcome him by your "wisdom" (Jeremiah 9:23; the great aim of the book of Job); and that you may see 'God alone can thrust him down' - i:e., confut... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW HE HATH NOT DIRECTED HIS WORDS AGAINST ME: NEITHER WILL I ANSWER HIM WITH YOUR SPEECHES._ I am altogether unprejudiced. For it is not I whom he addressed. 'Your speeches' have been influenced by irritation. Therefore I will not "answer him with your speeches.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY WERE AMAZED, THEY ANSWERED NO MORE: THEY LEFT OFF SPEAKING._ Here Elihu turns from the friends to Job, and so passes from the second person to the third; a transition frequent in a rebuke (Job 18:3). THEY LEFT OFF - `words were taken from them,' (cf. margin)... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN I HAD WAITED, (FOR THEY SPAKE NOT, BUT STOOD STILL, AND ANSWERED NO MORE;)_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I SAID, I WILL ANSWER ALSO MY PART, I ALSO WILL SHEW MINE OPINION._ My part - for my part. Maurer translates Job 32:16, 'And should I have waited because they spake not?' etc. Certainly not. 'I also will answer,' etc. Umbreit translates, 'I waited, but they spoke not: now will I also answer,' etc.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR I AM FULL OF MATTER, THE SPIRIT WITHIN ME CONSTRAINETH ME._ 'I am full of words,' whereas the friends have not a word more to say. THE SPIRIT - (Job 32:8; Job 33:4; Jeremiah 20:9, "His word was as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay;" Acts... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEHOLD, MY BELLY IS AS WINE WHICH HATH NO VENT; IT IS READY TO BURST LIKE NEW BOTTLES._ Belly - bosom, from which the words of orientalists, in speaking, seem to come more than with us: they speak gutturally. 'Like (new) wine (in fermentation) without a vent,' to work itself off-literally, 'is not... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WILL SPEAK, THAT I MAY BE REFRESHED: I WILL OPEN MY LIPS AND ANSWER._ Refreshed - literally, that there may be air or relief to me (1 Samuel 16:23).... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET ME NOT, I PRAY YOU, ACCEPT ANY MAN'S PERSON, NEITHER LET ME GIVE FLATTERING TITLES UNTO MAN._ 'May I never accept,' etc. Elihu alludes to Job's words (Job 13:8; Job 13:10), wherein be complains that the friends plead for God partially, "accepting His person." Elihu says he will not do so, but... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR I KNOW NOT TO GIVE FLATTERING TITLES; IN SO DOING MY MAKER WOULD SOON TAKE ME AWAY._ _ FOR I KNOW NOT TO GIVE FLATTERING TITLES; IN SO DOING MY MAKER WOULD SOON TAKE ME AWAY._ Take me away - as a punishment (Psalms 102:24). Remarks: (1) A third party listening calmly to two disputants often s... [ Continue Reading ]