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Job 34:14
If He set his heart upon man, rather, upon Himself, if He gather unto Himself His spirit and His breath, that by which the existence of all creatures is maintained,
If He set his heart upon man, rather, upon Himself, if He gather unto Himself His spirit and His breath, that by which the existence of all creatures is maintained,
Verse Job 34:14. _IF HE SET HIS HEART UPON MAN_] I think this and the following verse should be read thus: - "If he set his heart upon man, he will gather his soul and breath to himself; _for_ all fl...
IF HE SET HIS HEART UPON MAN - Margin, as in Hebrew “upon him” - meaning “man.” That is, if he fixes his attention particularly on him, or should form a purpose in regard him. The argument seems to be...
CHAPTER 34 _ 1. Hear my words ye wise men (Job 34:1)_ 2. The refutation of Job's accusation of God (Job 34:5) 3. Job needs testing to the end (Job 34:31)...
Elihu summons the wise men who hear him to seek a right decision. Job has accused God of injustice, when he is innocent. But in reality Job is the worst of scorners, for he denies the profit of religi...
MAN. him. SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. AND. even; or. Figure of speech _Hendiadys_ (App-6), one thing meant by the two words. BREATH. Hebrew. _neshamah._ App-16. Compare Genesis 2:7....
_if he set his heart upon man_ lit. as marg. _upon him_. The interpretation of the A. V. is possible, the meaning being, if God should set His mind strictly on man, to mark iniquity and the like (ch....
The first thought of Elihu is that the earth, the world, is not entrusted to God by another; He himself arranged it all as it is; there is therefore no motive to injustice. This is one side of his ide...
This charge of injustice Elihu rebuts, _first_, on the general ground of its impiety: God cannot be thought of as acting in the way Job asserted He rewardeth every man according to his works (Job 34:1...
TEXT 34:10-15 10 THEREFORE HEARKEN ONTO ME, YE MEN OF UNDERSTANDING: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. 11 For the work of a ma...
_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 s...
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-9. Elihu appeals to his hearers to judge the matter. He protests against the complaints of Job that he was treated unjustly by God, and that it was no profit to be...
God created our lives. And God could suddenly end our lives. But God is kind. He loves us. So he allows people to live so that we may choose to know him (Acts 17:27-28). Peter wrote that God is patien...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 34 ELIHU DISCUSSES THE SPEE...
IF HE SET HIS HEART UPON MAN. — Or, _upon himself._ It is ambiguous: and so, likewise, the next clause is. We must either regard it as the consequence of the former one — “If He set His heart upon Him...
אִם ־יָשִׂ֣ים אֵלָ֣יו לִבֹּ֑ו רוּחֹ֥ו וְ֝ נִש
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...
THE ALMIGHTY MUST BE JUST Job 34:1 Elihu stands in Job 34:10 as God's apologist. God's absolute and impartial justice is at all times a matter of untold comfort. There will be no cause of ultimate co...
Job gave no answer to the challenge, and Elihu proceeded. He first appealed to the wise men, asked that they would listen in order to try his words. He then made two quotations from the things Job had...
If (k) he set his heart upon man, [if] he gather unto himself his spirit (l) and his breath; (k) To destroy him. (l) The breath of life which he gave man....
_To him, and examine his conduct with rigour: there is scarcely a moment of our lives in which he would not discover a just reason for withdrawing his hand, and suffering us to die, Psalm ciii. 29. (C...
(13) Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? (14) If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; (15) All flesh shall peri...
3. NOW ON TO CHAPTER 34 H. Job 34:1-9 (NKJV) Elihu further answered and said: 2 "Hear my words, you wise [men]; Give ear to me, you who have knowledge. 3 For the ear tests words As the palate taste...
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...
IF HE SET HIS HEART UPON MAN,.... Not his love and affections; though there are some he does in this sense set his heart on, and whose souls at death he gathers to himself, but with this sense the nex...
If he set his heart upon man, [if] he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; Ver. 14. _If he set his heart upon man_] viz. For evil, and not for good, and have a purpose to unmake him again,...
_If he set his heart upon man_ Hebrew, אליו, _eelaiv, upon him_, meaning man, doubtless. If his eye and heart be upon man, and he diligently observe him and all his ways, and whatsoever is amiss in hi...
HIS APPEAL AS TO WISE MEN (vv.1-4) Since Job had wisely refrained from speaking, Elihu makes an appeal to all his hearers, as to wise men (v.2). This reminds us of1 Corinthians 10:15, "I speak as to...
UPON MAN: _ Heb._ upon him...
As proof that God is just, is the continuing existence of man! If God should so choose He would recall every soul (Ecclesiastes 12:7). God is just with His creation, even though most of His creation c...
10-15 Elihu had showed Job, that God meant him no hurt by afflicting him, but intended his spiritual benefit. Here he shows, that God did him no wrong by afflicting him. If the former did not satisfy...
UPON MAN, Heb. _upon him_, i.e. man, as may seem probable from JOB 34:11,15, where _man_ is expressed; and from the next clause of this verse, where he speaks of that SPIRIT and BREATH which is in man...
Job 34:14 set H7760 (H8799) heart H3820 gather H622 (H8799) Spirit H7307 breath H5397 set -...
Job 34:1. _Furthermore Elihu answered and said, Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat._ I wish that verse was...
CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. He magnifies God's holiness. CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: It is absurd and unreasonable to multiply words in complaint against God's ways....
Job 34:5. _Job hath said God hath taken away my judgment._ See on Job 27:2. Elihu, in every accusation, takes or turns Job's words in a wrong sense. Job meant that God had varied, in regard of him, th...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 34:1 Elihu calls on “wise men” to hear Job’s contention that he is in the right (vv. Job 34:2) and “men of understanding” to hear Elihu’s argument against this claim (vv....
_ELIHU’S SECOND SPEECH_ Probably after waiting for a reply from Job, and none being forthcoming, Elihu resumes. Job 34:1.—“Furthermore Elihu answered (took up speech), and said”. Job’s silence probabl...
EXPOSITION JOB 34:1 In this chapter Elihu turns from Job to those whom he addresses as "wise men" (verse 2), or "men of understanding" (verse 10). Whether these are Job's three special friends, or ot...
Furthermore Elihu went on then [Job didn't answer], he said, Hear my words, O ye wise men; give ear unto me, that have knowledge. For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes meat (Job 34:1-3). That'...
Isaiah 24:22; Job 7:17; Job 9:4; Psalms 104:29...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3