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Verse Job 33:30. _TO BRING BACK HIS SOUL FROM THE PIT_] Nearly a
repetition of the promise in Job 33:28.
_TO BE ENLIGHTENED WITH THE LIGHT OF THE LIVING._] An echo of Psalms
56:13: "Thou hast delive...
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TO BRING BACK HIS SOUL FROM THE PIT - To keep him from descending to
the grave, and to the dark world beneath. He takes these methods of
warning people, in order that they may not bring destruction on...
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CHAPTER 33:8-33
_ 1. Elihu rebukes Job (Job 33:8)_
2. How God deals with man (Job 33:14)
3. How God in grace recovers (Job 33:23)
4. Mark well, Job, hearken unto me ...
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There is a second way, when a man is brought near to death, and the
destroying angels wait to take his life. Then an angel of mercy
instructs man in the meaning of his suffering, intercedes for him, a...
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Elihu sums up his doctrine regarding the gracious purpose and effect
of God's methods of speaking unto man....
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5. This God does to save man from destruction. (Job 33:29-33)
TEXT 33:29-33
29 LO, ALL THESE THINGS DOTH GOD WORK,
Twice, _yea_thrice, with a man,
30 To bring back his soul from the pit,
That he...
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_TO BRING BACK HIS SOUL FROM THE PIT, TO BE ENLIGHTENED WITH THE LIGHT
OF THE LIVING._
Referring to Job 33:28 (Psalms 56:13)....
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THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED)
1-13. Elihu blames Job for regarding himself as sinless, and
complaining that' God is his enemy and will not answer him....
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Job had argued that God never spoke to him (Job 30:20). But Eliphaz
insisted that God had a message for Job. Perhaps Job was not yet ready
to believe God’s message.
The man in verses 27-28 did not ar...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
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CHAPTER 33
ELIHU SPEAKS TO JOB
V1...
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TO BRING BACK HIS SOUL. — Here, again, is the very key-note of
Elihu’s doctrine. God’s dealings are for the purpose of education
and discipline, and this is what he wishes to impress upon Job....
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לְ הָשִׁ֣יב נַ֭פְשֹׁו מִנִּי ־שָׁ֑חַת
לֵ֝ אֹ֗
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XXV.
POST-EXILIC WISDOM
Job 32:1; Job 33:1; Job 34:1
A PERSONAGE hitherto unnamed in the course of the drama now assumes
the place of critic and judge between Job and his friends. Elihu, son
of Bara...
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THE INTERPRETER
Job 33:1
It is not wonderful that Elihu has been mistaken for the Mediator
Himself, so helpfully does he interpose between Job and his Maker. He
dwells especially on his own likeness...
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Elihu began his direct appeal to Job by asking his attention, assuring
him of sincerity in motive, and finally declaring that he spoke to him
as a comrade, not as a judge, or one who would fill him wi...
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(18) He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from
perishing by the sword. (19) В¶ He is chastened also with pain upon
his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: (20) So that...
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Elihu's Speeches
I. INTRODUCTION
A. In our last study of the book of Job (Chapter s 11-14), - Job had
just replied to Zophar's speech.
1. Chapter 14 concludes the "first round" of speeches by Job's...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 32 THROUGH 37.
But these spiritual affections of Job did not prevent his turning this
consciousness of integrity into a robe of self-righteousness which hid
G...
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TO BRING BACK HIS SOUL FROM THE PIT,.... From the pit of the grave; at
the mouth or on the brink of which he seemed to be in the apprehension
of his friends, and having the sentence of death in himsel...
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To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light
of the living.
Ver. 30. _To bring back his soul from the pit_] _i.e._ That he may
save him from temporal and eternal destruction,...
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_All these things worketh God_ All these ways and methods does God
take to awaken, convince, and save sinners; _oftentimes with man_ One
way with one man, and another with another; or, using these sev...
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OF THE TRUE RELATION OF SINFUL MAN TOWARD GOD...
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to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light
of the living, instead of being overshadowed with the darkness of
death....
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HE SPEAKS AS A MEDIATOR
(vv.1-7)
Elihu did not take any haughty and unfeeling attitude as did Job's
three friends, but speaks with simple humility, entreating Job to hear
and consider what he says ...
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29-33 Elihu shows that God's great and gracious design toward the
children of men, is, to save them from being for ever miserable, and
to bring them to be for ever happy. By whatever means we are kept...
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i.e. That he may enjoy the light of life, and continue in the land of
the living, out of which he was going....
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Job 33:30 back H7725 (H8687) soul H5315 Pit H7845 enlightened H215
(H8736) light H216 life H2416...
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This is part of the speech of young Elihu, who had listened with much
patience, but also with great indignation, to the harsh speeches of
Job's three friends and to Job's self-righteous answers.
Job...
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This is a speech of young Elihu, who had sat quietly listening to the
taunting words of the three «candid friends» of Job, and to the
somewhat exasperated replies of the patriarch. At last, the young...
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CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. Affliction is shown to be
discipline.
CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job.
CONCLUSION: God often afflicts the body in love and with gracious
designs of good to the sou...
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Job 33:4. _The Spirit of God hath made me._ See on Genesis 2:7, and
Psalms 33:6. The creation of man was known to all the descendants of
Noah, much the same as to Moses. Sanchoniatho the Phœnician
his...
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_Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man._
DIVINE PROVIDENCE
He who believes in the being of a God, must logically believe in the
doctrine of Divine providence. That providence is over a...
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_He is chastened also with pain upon his bed._
SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION
Two Chapter s in the hook of human life are hard to understand--the
prosperity of the wicked, and the afflictions of the righteou...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 33:1 Elihu opens and closes this section with a call
for Job to listen to his words and answer if he is able (vv. Job 33:1,...
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_ELIHU’S FIRST SPEECH_
Elihu addresses himself to Job on the subject of God’s afflictive
dispensations. Afflictions often disciplinary chastisements.
I. HE BESPEAKS JOB’S CAREFUL ATTENTION TO ALL TH...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 33:1
In this chapter Elihu, turning away from the "comforters," proceeds to
address Job himself, offering to reason out the matter in dispute with
him, in God's stead. After a brief e...
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Wherefore, Job, [he said,] I pray thee, now hear my speech, hearken to
all my words. Behold, I've opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my
mouth. My words shall be of uprightness of my heart: and m...
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Acts 26:18; Isaiah 2:5; Isaiah 38:17; Job 33:24; Job 33:28;...
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GOD'S METHOD OF GRACE
Job 33:18
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
In our Scripture today Elihu is addressing Job, and his three supposed
friends. Elihu had listened to the speeches of Bildad, Zophar, and
Eliphaz....
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HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB
Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
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To bring — That he may save men from being forever miserable, and
make them forever happy. "Lord, what is man, that thou shouldest thus
visit him? This should engage us, to comply with God's designs,...