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BEHOLD, HE FINDETH OCCASIONS AGAINST ME - That is, God. This is not
exactly the language of Job, though much that he had said had seemed
to imply this. The idea is, that God sought opportunity to oppo...
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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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FINDETH. seeketh. Compare Numbers 14:35; Numbers 32:7.
HE COUNTETH. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint,
Syriac, and Vulgate, read "that He may count"....
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See ch. Job 10:13 _seq_., Job 13:24; Job 19:11; Job 30:21.
_he findeth occasions_ lit. _enmities_, i. e. grounds of enmity or
hostility; he "findeth" is alm
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To Job's complaint that God shewed a hostility to him which was
arbitrary and without cause Elihu replies that such a thing was
unbecoming God and not to be thought of, for God is greater than man....
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BEHOLD HE FINDETH OCCASIONS AGAINST ME— The first branch of this
passage, _Behold he findeth occasions against me;_ or, as Heath and
others render it, _He inventeth cruelties against me,_ is not to be...
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He challenges Job's claim that he suffers because God counts him an
enemy. (Job 33:8-12)
TEXT 33:8-12
8 SURELY THOU HAS SPOKEN IN MY HEARING,
And I have heard the voice of _thy_ WORDS, _saying,_
9...
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_BEHOLD, HE FINDETH OCCASIONS AGAINST ME, HE COUNTETH ME FOR HIS
ENEMY,_
Occasions - for hostility: literally, enmities (Job 13:24; Job 16:9;
Job 19:11; Job 3
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33:10 he (a-2) i.e. God....
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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, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
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CHAPTER 33
ELIHU SPEAKS TO JOB
V1...
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Elihu did not repeat Job’s actual words. Instead, Elihu chose words
that would emphasise Job’s main ideas. Job argued that he was
innocent. And Job blamed God for Job’s troubles....
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BEHOLD, HE FINDETH OCCASIONS AGAINST ME. — See Job 13:24; Job 13:26;
Job 19:11....
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הֵ֣ן תְּ֭נוּאֹות עָלַ֣י יִמְצָ֑א
יַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי לְ...
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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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_Complaints. Something similar had indeed come from Job's lips; (chap.
xiv. 17., and xx. 21.) not that he pretended that God sought to find
him guilty without cause; but he meant that He treated him a...
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(8) В¶ Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the
voice of thy words, saying, (9) I am clean without transgression, I am
innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. (10) Behold, he f...
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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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BEHOLD, HE FINDETH OCCASIONS AGAINST ME,.... That is, sought in order
to find them; so Job in some places suggests, that God inquired after
his sins, and sought diligently after them, that he might ha...
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Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
Ver. 10. _Behold, he findeth occasions against me_] Or, breaches; he
picks quarrels with me, and would fain find out somewhat in...
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_Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing_ I shall not charge thee with
hypocrisy, as thy friends do, which God only can discern; but with
those words which I myself have heard from thee; _I am clean wit...
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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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He had also heard Job accuse God of being his enemy (Job 13:27; Job
7:17-20). Here he rehearses Job's complaints that God had been
harassing him....
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8-13 Elihu charges Job with reflecting upon the justice and goodness
of God. When we hear any thing said to God's dishonour, we ought to
bear our testimony against it. Job had represented God as seve...
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He picketh quarrels with me, and _watcheth over_ and _searcheth after_
all my errors and frailties, as Job said, JOB 10:6, JOB 14:16,17;
severely marking what is amiss in me, that thence he may take o...
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Job 33:10 finds H4672 (H8799) occasions H8569 counts H2803 (H8799)
enemy H341 (H8802)
he findeth -...
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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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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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Job 10:15; Job 13:24; Job 13:25; Job 14:16; Job 16:9;...
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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