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Verse Job 36:10. _HE OPENETH ALSO THEIR EAR_] He gives them to
_understand_ the reason why they are thus corrected, and commands them
to _return_ from those iniquities which have induced him to visit...
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HE OPENETH ALSO THEIR EAR TO DISCIPLINE - To teaching; or he makes
them willing to learn the lessons which their afflictions are designed
to teach; coral). See the notes at Job 33:16....
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CHAPTER 36:1-21
_ 1. God's care over the godly (Job 36:1)_
2. The purposes of affliction (Job 36:8)
3. Job to consider this (Job 36:19)
Job 36
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God is mighty, yet despises none. He destroys the wicked, but watches
over the righteous, exalting them to honour. If He afflicts them it is
to bring home to them their sin. Thus God instructs them an...
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INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aven_. App-44. Not the same word as Job 36:23....
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Elihu's doctrine is in a word: God is great and despiseth not, He is
great in strength of heart. His greatness is that of understanding,
which enables Him to estimate all rightly, to see through all r...
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The meaning of afflictions they are a divine warning and stimulus to
rouse men out of a sinful lethargy and bring their sin to their
remembrance....
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If life often appears to present a different picture and men are seen
in affliction, this affliction is a discipline, needful to warn them
and bring their evil before them....
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E.
GODPERSON, PROMISE, PURPOSE, AND PEOPLE (Job 36:1-33)
1.
God deals with men according to their deeds; the penitent he restores,
others perish. (Job 36:1-16)
TEXT 36:1-16
1 ELIHU ALSO PROCEEDED...
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_AND IF THEY BE BOUND IN FETTERS, AND BE HOLDEN IN CORDS OF
AFFLICTION;_
If they be afflicted, it is no proof that they are hypocrites, as the
friends maintain; or that God disregards them, and is in...
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THE WORK BEGUN. THE LIBERALITY OF THE PEOPLE
Cp. 1 Chronicles 29:6; Ezra 2:68; Nehemiah 7:70.
8-38. The construction of the Tabernacle: see...
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THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED)
1-15. Elihu maintains the wisdom and impartial justice of the rule of
God. His purpose is to discipline and improve men, even by their
afflictions....
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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 36
ELIHU TEACHES ABOUT GOD...
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God is kind. He is even kind to people who are proud and evil.
Elihu described a man whose attitudes were terrible. This man was both
proud and evil. Job’s friends thought that God would kill such a...
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וַ יִּ֣גֶל אָ֭זְנָם לַ † מּוּסָ֑ר וַ֝...
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XXVI.
THE DIVINE PREROGATIVE
Job 35:1; Job 36:1; Job 37:1
AFTER a long digression Elihu returns to consider the statement
ascribed to Job, "It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight
himself...
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HE DESPISETH NOT ANY
Job 36:1
God is mighty, but He does not despise thee, though thou be the least
of saints. His eyes are upon thee for good, and He will set thee
before His throne forever. He will...
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After answering the arguments of Job, as expressed in the quotations,
there would seem to have been a pause. Then Elihu commenced his last
address.
He first appealed to Job to hear him, as he was abou...
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_Ear, by secret inspirations, or by the admonition of pastors.
(Calmet) --- Afflictions will also speak louder to them than any
orator. (Haydock)_...
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(4) For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in
knowledge is with thee. (5) В¶ Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth
not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom. (6) He preserveth not...
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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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HE OPENETH ALSO THEIR EAR TO DISCIPLINE,.... Or "to correction" o; to
the rod of correction; to hear the voice of it and him that has
appointed it; its reproving voice for sin, its directing voice to...
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He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they
return from iniquity.
Ver. 10. _He openeth also their ear to discipline_] See on Job 33:16 .
_ And commandeth that they return from i...
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_If they be bound in fetters_ If, through the vicissitude of worldly
affairs, they are brought from their throne into a prison, as
sometimes hath been done. _Then he showeth them their work_ Their evi...
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He openeth also their ear to discipline, in admonishing them to lay
aside their pride, AND COMMANDETH THAT THEY RETURN FROM INIQUITY, from
the vanity of the various forms of transgression into which t...
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THE BENEVOLENT PURPOSES OF DIVINE JUSTICE...
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SPEAKING ON GOD'S BEHALF
(vv.1-4)
Elihu continues in the same strain, for as he says, there is much more
to be said on God's behalf. Where did Elihu find his knowledge? He
fetched it "from afar" (v....
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Suffering and pain also have the ability to open. person's ears to
instruction and getting back on the right path. "By hardships God can
get. man's attention and bring him out of sin" _(p. 73)._ Compa...
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14-26 As in prosperity we are ready to think our mountain will never
be brought low; so when in adversity, we are ready to think our valley
will never be filled up. But to conclude that to-morrow mus...
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i.e. He enableth and inclineth them to hearken to what God speaks by
the rod, who would not hear in the time of their prosperity; like them
JEREMIAH 22:21. TO DISCIPLINE; or, _to instruction_, i.e. to...
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Job 36:10 opens H1540 (H8799) ear H241 instruction H4148 commands H559
(H8799) turn H7725 (H8799) iniquity...
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Job 36:10
Discipline is the art or system of learning generally any little
things. It is very much the same as instruction or education. But
because teaching or education is often a very hard thing, a...
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CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. God's justice defended.
CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job.
CONCLUSION: God does all things well. Though it may seem sometimes
that we are neglected and forgotten and...
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Job 36:3. _I will fetch my knowledge from afar;_ from the expanse of
heaven, and from the remotest traditions of the sires. Natural
theology is very instructive to man, to acquaint us with the
perfect...
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_He openeth their ear to discipline._
DISCIPLINE
1. Notice the discipline which God uses in His family. Many of us are
froward children and need discipline. Job needed it, and had it; we
are not told...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:1 Elihu concludes his lengthy speech.
⇐ ⇔...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:5 Elihu implies that Job’s situation is an
example of God using affliction to deliver the righteous from their
sin—if they are willing to accept his correction.
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:8 Elihu describes AFFLICTION as a kind of
captivity. He argues that God uses affliction to speak to people about
their sin (v. Job 36:9)....
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:10 When Elihu says that God OPENS the EARS (also
v. Job 36:15), he is continuing his point from an earlier speech (see...
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_ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH_
No reply being made to Elihu’s preceding address, he resumes. Job
36:1.—“Elihu also proceded and said”. His object to bring Job to
a more becoming state of mind in reference t...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 36:1
The two chapters, Job 36:1; Job 37:1, form a single discourse, and
ought not to have been separated; or, at any rate, not so unskilfully
as they are, in the middle of a descriptio...
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Elihu continued (Job 36:1),
He's really taking him on.
Just allow me a little more, and I'm going to show you what I have to
speak on God's behalf. I'm going to fetch my knowledge from far off,
I'm g...
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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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Openeth — He inclines them to hearken to what God speaks by the rod....