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Job 34:25
Therefore He knoweth their works, looking through even their intentions, and He overturneth them in the night, with a sudden overthrow, so that they are destroyed, crushed out of existence.
Therefore He knoweth their works, looking through even their intentions, and He overturneth them in the night, with a sudden overthrow, so that they are destroyed, crushed out of existence.
Verse Job 34:25. _HE KNOWETH THEIR WORKS_] He knows what they have done, and what they are _plotting_ to do. _HE OVERTURNETH_ THEM _IN THE NIGHT_] In the revolution of a single night the plenitude of...
THEREFORE HE KNOWETH THEIR WORKS - Or, “Because he knoweth their works.” The word (לכן _lākên_) here rendered “therefore” is evidently used as denoting that since or because he was intimately acquai...
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)...
Injustice is incompatible with rule. How does Job condemn God, before whom even kings and princes are vile, and who regards rich and poor alike? He sees the oppressor and suddenly destroys him. In Job...
DESTROYED. crushed...
Armed with such omniscient insight (_therefore, Job 34:25_) He knoweth men's works, and His judgment overtakes them without fail....
God's strict justice may be seen in His government of the peoples and their princes alike. His justice is unerring, for it is guided by omniscient insight. Punishing oppression, it avenges the cause o...
3. God is supreme, sees every hidden thing, and is an impartial judge. (Job 34:16-30) TEXT 34:16-30 16 If now _thou hast_ understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words. 17 Shall even...
_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 inves...
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...
HE KNOWETH] RV 'he taketh knowledge OF.' 28. Oppression causes God's intervention....
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...
In Job’s country, a judge would select a day when he would act as judge. Everyone who needed the judge’s help would wait for that day. But on that day, they could go to his court. On that day, the jud...
THEREFORE. — We should expect _because_ rather; but the writer, believing in God’s justice, infers that since God acts thus He knoweth the works of man, and has grounds for acting as He acts....
לָכֵ֗ן יַ֭כִּיר מַעְבָּֽדֵיהֶ֑ם וְ הָ֥פַךְ לַ֝֗יְלָה...
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...
Therefore he knoweth their (s) works, and he overturneth [them] in the (t) night, so that they are destroyed. (s) Make it known that they are wicked. (t) Declare the things that were hid....
_Night, calamities. At once the shall be oppressed. (Calmet)_...
(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...
THEREFORE HE KNOWETH THEIR WORKS,.... Being God omniscient, or rather takes notice of them, weighs and considers them, and gives to man according to them; or rather makes them known, for of his omnisc...
Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth [them] in the night, so that they are destroyed. Ver. 25. _Therefore he knoweth their works_] It appeareth by their punishment that God took notic...
_He shall break in pieces mighty men_, &c. Neither their greatness nor their numbers can secure them from the stroke of God's justice; _and set others in their stead_ Give away their power and dignity...
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...
DESTROYED: _ Heb._ crushed...
16-30 Elihu appeals directly to Job himself. Could he suppose that God was like those earthly princes, who hate right, who are unfit to rule, and prove the scourges of mankind? It is daring presumpti...
i.e. Hence it appears that he knows all their evil works, because he judgeth them for them. God or men are ofttimes said in Scripture to know or do a thing, when they only manifest their knowing and d...
Job 34:25 knows H5234 (H8686) works H4566 overthrows H2015 (H8804) night H3915 crushed H1792 (H8691) he kn
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...
_If now thou hast understanding, hear this._ ELIHU’S REMONSTRANCE I. Founded on the supremacy of God. Where there is absolute supremacy, there can be no injustice. There are some who speak of the ab...
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'...
1 Thessalonians 5:2; Amos 8:7; Hosea 7:2; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 66:18;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3