JOB CHAPTER 32 Elihu, Job's fourth friend, speaketh: he is angry with Job for justifying himself, and with his three friends for not satisfying, and yet condemning him, JOB 32:1. He excuseth his youth; but wisdom is from God, and not from age, JOB 32:6; therefore he speaketh, being full of matter, a... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BUZITE; of the posterity of Buz, Nahor's son, GENESIS 22:21. OF THE KINDRED OF RAM, or _of Aram_; for _Ram_ and _Aram_ are used promiscuously: compare 2 KINGS 8:28, with 2 CHRONICLES 22:5 RUTH 4:19 MATTHEW 1:3. Others, _of Abraham_, who as he was called _Abram_, possibly was at first called only... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY HAD FOUND NO ANSWER to Job's allegations and arguments, as to the main cause. HAD CONDEMNED JOB as a hypocrite or ungodly, man.... [ Continue Reading ]
ELIHU HAD WAITED with patience, as the word notes. TILL JOB; add, _and his three friends_, as appears from the following words. It is a synecdoche, whereof instances have been given before. THEY WERE ELDER THAN HE; and therefore he expected more satisfaction from them, and gave them the precedency i... [ Continue Reading ]
No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
To wit, of discovering my weakness and folly, and of being thought forward and presumptuous.... [ Continue Reading ]
DAYS, i.e. multitude of days, by comparing the next clause of the verse. Or men _of days_, i.e. of many days or years, old men. SHOULD SPEAK, to wit, wisely and pertinently, as the next words limit it. SHOULD TEACH WISDOM; should instruct us that are younger in the paths of wisdom, and concerning th... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT; or, _surely_; it must be confessed. A SPIRIT, to wit, which gives him understanding, as is easily and fitly gathered out of the last words of the verse. And this is to be understood either, 1. Of the human spirit, or reasonable soul, which is in every man. So the sense of the place is, Every m... [ Continue Reading ]
GREAT MEN, i.e. men of eminency for age or learning, or dignity and power, such as Job's three friends seem to have been. JUDGMENT; what is just and right; or the judgment of God, and the methods and reasons of his administrations.... [ Continue Reading ]
I SAID within myself, and now I say it with my mouth. _Hearken to me_; thou, Job, especially, who art more nearly concerned, (to whom therefore he speaketh in the singular number,) and thy friends with thee.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WAITED with silence, and patience, and diligent attention; which therefore I now expect from you. YOUR REASONS; or, _reasonings_, Heb. _understandings_; or _mind s_; the depth and strength of your discourses, your most intelligent and forcible arguments against Job; I searched and examined them to... [ Continue Reading ]
By solid and satisfactory answers to his assertions and allegations.... [ Continue Reading ]
LEST YE SHOULD SAY; it is a defective speech, and may be thus supplied: Thus it was, or God thus left you to your own weakness, and mistakes, and impertinent discourses, _lest ye should say_, &c., i.e. lest you should ascribe the conquering or silencing of Job to your own wisdom, age, and experience... [ Continue Reading ]
I am not engaged in this discourse by any provoking words of Job, as you have been, which hath drawn forth your passions and biassed your judgments; but merely from zeal for the vindication of God's honour, and love to truth and justice, and a sincere desire to administer to Job matter both of convi... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY, i.e. Job's three friends, of whom he speaks some times, in the second, and here in the third person, directing his speech to Job and the auditors of this disputation. WERE AMAZED; they stood mute, like persons amazed, not knowing what to reply to Job's arguments, and wondering at his bold and... [ Continue Reading ]
Which he repeats as a strange and unreasonable thing, that they should be silent when they had such obligations to speak for the vindication both of God's justice, and of their own truth and reputation.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will take my turn, and speak what they have omitted.... [ Continue Reading ]
I AM FULL OF MATTER, i.e. I have many things to say in this cause. THE SPIRIT WITHIN ME; either my own spirit or soul, which is wholly dissatisfied with what hath been hitherto spoken, and clearly apprehends what may silence Job, and end the dispute; or God's Spirit, which he hath put in me; the Spi... [ Continue Reading ]
MY BELLY, i.e. my mind or heart, which is oft called a man's belly, as JOB 15:35 PSALMS 40:8 HABAKKUK 3:16 1 THESSALONIANS 7:38. AS WINE; as new wine pent up close in a bottle, as the following words explain it and determine it. The WINE is here put for the bottle in which it is, by a common metonym... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT I MAY BE REFRESHED; that I may ease my mind of those thoughts which now oppress it. I WILL OPEN MY LIPS AND ANSWER; I will not utter impertinent words, but solid answers, to Job's arguments.... [ Continue Reading ]
Do not expect that I should out of fear or respect to any of you speak partially, but bear with my free and plain dealing with you all. As I shall not censure and reproach Job as a hypocrite or profane person, which you have done; so neither shall I flatter him, but faithfully reprove him for his ex... [ Continue Reading ]
I have neither skill nor will to flatter Job or any man so as to debauch my conscience, or corrupt the truth, or speak falsely for his sake. If I should be guilty of that sin, God would quickly and sorely punish me for it. Or without this supplement, MY MAKER WILL QUICKLY TAKE ME AWAY, to wit, out o... [ Continue Reading ]