Job 35:1
_ELIHU SPAKE MOREOVER, AND SAID,_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ELIHU SPAKE MOREOVER, AND SAID,_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THINKEST THOU THIS TO BE RIGHT, THAT THOU SAIDST, MY RIGHTEOUSNESS IS MORE THAN GOD'S?_ More than. Umbreit translates, as Job 9:2; Job 25:4, "I am righteous (literally, my righteousness is) before God' х_ TSIDQIY_ (H6664) _ MEE-'EEL_ (H410)]. The English version agrees with Job 9:17; Job 16:12; Jo... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THOU SAIDST, WHAT ADVANTAGE WILL IT BE UNTO THEE? AND, WHAT PROFIT SHALL I HAVE, IF I BE CLEANSED FROM MY SIN?_ Explanatory of "this" in Job 35:2, 'For thou sayest (to thyself, as if a distinct person), What advantage is it (thy integrity) to thee? What profit have I (by, integrity) more than ... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WILL ANSWER THEE, AND THY COMPANIONS WITH THEE._ Companions - those entertaining like sentiments with thee (Job 34:8; Job 34:36).... [ Continue Reading ]
_LOOK UNTO THE HEAVENS, AND SEE; AND BEHOLD THE CLOUDS WHICH ARE HIGHER THAN THOU._ Elihu, like Eliphaz (Job 22:2; Job 22:12), shows that God is too exalted in nature to be susceptible of benefit or hurt from the righteousness or sin of man respectively: it is themselves that they benefit by righte... [ Continue Reading ]
_BY REASON OF THE MULTITUDE OF OPPRESSIONS THEY MAKE THE OPPRESSED TO CRY: THEY CRY OUT BY REASON OF THE ARM OF THE MIGHTY._ (Ecclesiastes 4:1, "I considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter: and on the side o... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT NONE SAITH, WHERE IS GOD MY MAKER, WHO GIVETH SONGS IN THE NIGHT;_ But the reason is, that the innocent sufferers often do not humbly seek God for succour; so to their "pride" is to be laid the blame of their ruin: also because (Job 35:13) they, as Job, instead of waiting God's time in pious t... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALTHOUGH THOU SAYEST THOU SHALT NOT SEE HIM, YET JUDGMENT IS BEFORE HIM; THEREFORE TRUST THOU IN HIM._ Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him - as a temporal deliverer; because he did look for a Redeemer after death (Job 19:25); which passage cannot, consistently with Elihu's assertion here,... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT NOW, BECAUSE IT IS NOT SO, HE HATH VISITED IN HIS ANGER; YET HE KNOWETH IT NOT IN GREAT EXTREMITY:_ As it is, because Job waited not trustingly and patiently (Job 35:14; Numbers 20:12; Zephaniah 3:2. "She received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God;" Micah... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE DOTH JOB OPEN HIS MOUTH IN VAIN; HE MULTIPLIETH WORDS WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE._ Apodosis to 15. IN VAIN - rashly. Remarks: (1) God can have no possible inducement to act with injustice in His dealings toward us. He is exalted so far above man as to be altogether independent of man, as rega... [ Continue Reading ]