Job 34:1
_FURTHERMORE ELIHU ANSWERED AND SAID,_ Answered - proceeded.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FURTHERMORE ELIHU ANSWERED AND SAID,_ Answered - proceeded.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HEAR MY WORDS, O YE WISE MEN; AND GIVE EAR UNTO ME, YE THAT HAVE KNOWLEDGE._ This chapter is addressed also to the "friends," as Job 33:1 was to Job alone.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE EAR TRIETH WORDS, AS THE MOUTH TASTETH MEAT._ Palate (note, Job 12:11; Job 33:2).... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET US CHOOSE TO US JUDGMENT: LET US KNOW AMONG OURSELVES WHAT IS GOOD._ Judgment - what is right and just. Let us select, among the conflicting sentiments advanced, what will stand the test of examination.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR JOB HATH SAID, I AM RIGHTEOUS: AND GOD HATH TAKEN AWAY MY JUDGMENT._ _ FOR JOB HATH SAID, I AM RIGHTEOUS: AND GOD HATH TAKEN AWAY MY JUDGMENT._ Judgment my right. Job's own words (Job 13:18; Job 27:2).... [ Continue Reading ]
_SHOULD I LIE AGAINST MY RIGHT? MY WOUND IS INCURABLE WITHOUT TRANSGRESSION._ i.e., were I to renounce my right (i:e., confess myself guilty), I should lie. Job virtually had said so (Job 27:4; Job 6:28). Maurer, not so well, 'Notwithstanding my right (innocence), I am treated as a liar by God,' by... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHAT MAN IS LIKE JOB, WHO DRINKETH UP SCORNING LIKE WATER?_ (Job 15:16.) Image from the camel. SCORNING - against God (Job 15:4).... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHICH GOETH IN COMPANY WITH THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY, AND WALKETH WITH WICKED MEN._ Job virtually goeth in company (makes common cause) with the wicked, by taking up their sentiments (Job 9:22; Job 9:30; Job 21:7), or at least by saying that those who act on such sentiments are unpunished (Malachi... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR HE HATH SAID, IT PROFITETH A MAN NOTHING THAT HE SHOULD DELIGHT HIMSELF WITH GOD._ With God - in intimacy (Psalms 50:18, "When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers").... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE HEARKEN UNTO ME, YE MEN OF UNDERSTANDING: FAR BE IT FROM GOD, THAT HE SHOULD DO WICKEDNESS; AND FROM THE ALMIGHTY, THAT HE SHOULD COMMIT INIQUITY._ The true answer to Job, which God follows up, (Job 38:1.) Man is to believe God's ways are right, because they are His, not because we fully... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE WORK OF A MAN SHALL HE RENDER UNTO HIM, AND CAUSE EVERY MAN TO FIND ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS._ Partly here; fully hereafter (Jeremiah 32:19; Romans 2:6; 1 Peter 1:17; Revelation 22:12).... [ Continue Reading ]
_YEA, SURELY GOD WILL NOT DO WICKEDLY, NEITHER WILL THE ALMIGHTY PERVERT JUDGMENT._ (Job 8:3.) In opposition to Job (Job 34:5). WILL NOT - cannot.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHO HATH GIVEN HIM A CHARGE OVER THE EARTH? OR WHO HATH DISPOSED THE WHOLE WORLD?_ If the world were not God's property, as having been made by Him, but committed to His charge by some superior, it might be possible for Him to act unjustly, as He would not then be injuring Himself; but as it is, f... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF HE SET HIS HEART UPON MAN, IF HE GATHER UNTO HIMSELF HIS SPIRIT AND HIS BREATH;_ 'If He were to set His heart on man,' either to injure him, or to take strict account of his sins. The connection supports rather (Umbreit), 'If He had regard to Himself (only), and were to gather unto Himself (Psa... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF NOW THOU HAST UNDERSTANDING, HEAR THIS: HEARKEN TO THE VOICE OF MY WORDS._ In Job 34:2 Elihu had spoken to all men of wisdom and understanding in general, now he calls Job's special attention, If he have understanding.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SHALL EVEN HE THAT HATETH RIGHT GOVERN? AND WILT THOU CONDEMN HIM THAT IS MOST JUST?_ 'Can even He who (in thy view) hateth right (justice) govern?' The government of the world would be impossible if injustice were sanctioned. God must be just, because He governs (2 Samuel 23:3, "He that ruleth ov... [ Continue Reading ]
_IS IT FIT TO SAY TO A KING, THOU ART WICKED? AND TO PRINCES, YE ARE UNGODLY?_ Literally, (Is it fit) to be said to a king? It would be a gross outrage to reproach thus an earthly monarch, much more the King of kings (Exodus 22:28). But Maurer, with the Septuagint, and Vulgate, reads (It is not fit... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOW MUCH LESS TO HIM THAT ACCEPTETH NOT THE PERSONS OF PRINCES, NOR REGARDETH THE RICH MORE THAN THE POOR? FOR THEY ALL ARE THE WORK OF HIS HANDS._ (Acts 10:34; 2 Chronicles 19:7; Proverbs 22:2; Job 31:15.) ACCEPTETH NOT THE PERSONS OF - shows no partiality to.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN A MOMENT SHALL THEY DIE, AND THE PEOPLE SHALL BE TROUBLED AT MIDNIGHT, AND PASS AWAY: AND THE MIGHTY SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY WITHOUT HAND._ They - "the rich" and "princes" who offend God. THE PEOPLE - namely, of the guilty princes; guilty also themselves. AT MIDNIGHT - image from a night attack... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR HIS EYES ARE UPON THE WAYS OF MAN, AND HE SEETH ALL HIS GOINGS._ God's omniscience and omnipotence enable Him to execute immediate justice. He needs not to be long on the "watch," as Job thought (Job 7:12; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Jeremiah 32:19).... [ Continue Reading ]
_THERE IS NO DARKNESS, NOR SHADOW OF DEATH, WHERE THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY MAY HIDE THEMSELVES._ Shadow of death - thick darkness (Amos 9:2. Psalms 139:12 Psalms 139:12).... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR HE WILL NOT LAY UPON MAN MORE THAN RIGHT; THAT HE SHOULD ENTER INTO JUDGMENT WITH GOD._ (1 Corinthians 10:13; Lamentations 3:32; Isaiah 27:8.) Better, as Umbreit, 'He does not (needs not to) regard (as in Job 34:14; Isaiah 41:20) man long (so the Hebrew х_ `OWD_ (H5750) - literally, again, i:e.... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE SHALL BREAK IN PIECES MIGHTY MEN WITHOUT NUMBER, AND SET OTHERS IN THEIR STEAD._ Break in pieces - (Psalms 2:9; Job 12:18; Daniel 2:21). WITHOUT NUMBER - rather, as margin, 'without searching out' х_ LO'_ (H3808) _ CHEEQER_ (H2714)].... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE HE KNOWETH THEIR WORKS, AND HE OVERTURNETH THEM IN THE NIGHT, SO THAT THEY ARE DESTROYED._ Therefore - because He knows all things (Job 34:21), He knows their works, without a formal investigation (Job 34:24). IN THE NIGHT - suddenly, unexpectedly (Job 34:20). Fitly in the night, as it... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE STRIKETH THEM AS WICKED MEN IN THE OPEN SIGHT OF OTHERS;_ Striketh - chasteneth. AS, х_ TACHAT_ (H8478)] - literally, under; i:e., because they are wicked. But Maurer takes it 'in the place where wicked men are punished:' as the next clause explains the Hebrew (see margin), 'in the places of... [ Continue Reading ]
_BECAUSE THEY TURNED BACK FROM HIM, AND WOULD NOT CONSIDER ANY OF HIS WAYS:_ The grounds of their punishment in Job 34:26; Job 34:28 states in what respect they "considered not God's ways" - namely, by oppression, whereby "they caused the cry," etc.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN HE GIVETH QUIETNESS, WHO THEN CAN MAKE TROUBLE? AND WHEN HE HIDETH HIS FACE, WHO THEN CAN BEHOLD HIM? WHETHER IT BE DONE AGAINST A NATION, OR AGAINST A MAN ONLY:_ (Proverbs 16:7; Isaiah 26:3, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind it stayed on thee.") MAKE TROUBLE - rather, condemn... [ Continue Reading ]
_THAT THE HYPOCRITE REIGN NOT, LEST THE PEOPLE BE ENSNARED._ Ensnared - into sin (1 Kings 12:28; 1 Kings 12:30). Or, rather, enthralled by further oppression (Job 34:26).... [ Continue Reading ]
_SURELY IT IS MEET TO BE SAID UNTO GOD, I HAVE BORNE CHASTISEMENT, I WILL NOT OFFEND ANY MORE:_ Job accordingly says so (Job 40:3; Micah 7:9; Leviticus 26:41). It was to lead him to this that Elihu was sent. Though no hypocrite, Job, like all, had sin, therefore through affliction he was to be brou... [ Continue Reading ]
_THAT WHICH I SEE NOT TEACH THOU ME: IF I HAVE DONE INIQUITY, I WILL DO NO MORE._ (Job 10:2; God premises to teach His people, Psalms 32:8, when penitently seeking His inward teaching; Psalms 19:12; Psalms 139:23.) The Hebrew is literally 'Besides those things which I see, teach thou me.' NO MORE... [ Continue Reading ]
_SHOULD IT BE ACCORDING TO THY MIND? HE WILL RECOMPENSE IT, WHETHER THOU REFUSE, OR WHETHER THOU CHOOSE; AND NOT I: THEREFORE SPEAK WHAT THOU KNOWEST._ 'Should God recompense (sinners) according to thy mind? Then it is for thee to reject and to choose, and not me' (Umbreit); or, as Maurer translates... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET MEN OF UNDERSTANDING TELL ME, AND LET A WISE MAN HEARKEN UNTO ME._ Rather, 'men, etc., will say to me, and the wise man (Job 34:2; Job 34:10) wh hearkens to me (will say), "Job hath spoken,"' etc.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MY DESIRE IS THAT JOB MAY BE TRIED UNTO THE END BECAUSE OF HIS ANSWERS FOR WICKED MEN._ х_ 'AABIY_ (H1), from _ 'AABEH_ (H15), wish, desire.] Margin, not so well, My father; Elihu addressing God. This title does not elsewhere occur in Job. TRIED - by calamities. ANSWERS FOR WICKED MEN - (see n... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR HE ADDETH REBELLION UNTO HIS SIN, HE CLAPPETH HIS HANDS AMONG US, AND MULTIPLIETH HIS WORDS AGAINST GOD._ Clappeth ... hands - in scorn (Job 27:23; Ezekiel 21:17). MULTIPLIETH ... WORDS - (Job 11:2; Job 35:16). To his original 'sin,' to correct which trials have been sent, 'he adds rebellion... [ Continue Reading ]