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Job 36:14

They die lit. their soul dieth.They perish in the midst of their days.

is among the unclean Or, perisheth among the unclean, i. e. likethe unclean. They die prematurely or in debasement like the hierodouloiin the temples of Baal, comp. 1Ki 14:24; 1 Kings 15:12.

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See also Job 36:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 36:14. _THEY DIE IN YOUTH_] Exactly what the psalmist says, "Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out _half their days_," Psalms 55:23. Literally, the words of Elihu are, "They shall die...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEY DIE IN YOUTH - Margin, “Their soul dieth.” The word “soul” or “life” in the Hebrew is used to denote oneself. The meaning is, that they would soon be cut down, and share the lot of the openly wic...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The godless cherish angry thoughts about God's discipline they refuse to cry for God's help (Job 36:13). They die young, perishing like the sodomites (those religiously consecrated to unnatural vice;...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEY DIE. their souls die. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. UNCLEAN. sodomites. See note on Deuteronomy 23:17. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aval_. App-44. Not the same word as verses: Job 36:10; Job 36:21....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT THE HYPOCRITES IN HEART HEAP UP WRATH: THEY CRY NOT WHEN HE BINDETH THEM._ Same sentiment as Job 36:11 expanded. Verse 13. HYPOCRITES - or, the ungodly (Maurer); but "hypocrites" is perhaps a d...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    36:14 unclean. (c-12) Or 'like to those devoted to infamy.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    _Is_ AMONG] render, '_perisheth_ like.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Some people refuse to listen when God warns them. These people are wicked. We can be confident that God will punish them. In verse 14, Elihu mentioned men whom other people hand over for an evil life...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    תָּמֹ֣ת בַּ † נֹּ֣עַר נַפְשָׁ֑ם וְ֝ חַיָּתָ֗ם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    They die in (k) youth, and their life [is] among the unclean. (k) They die of some vile death, and that before they come to age....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Storm. Hebrew and Septuagint, "in youth," (Haydock) being suddenly cut off, without having deplored the sins of their youth. (Calmet) --- Effeminate. Hebrew, "the consecrated" to prostitution. Eliu c...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEY DIE IN YOUTH,.... They, or "their soul" u; which, though that dies not, being immaterial and immortal; yet being the principal part of man, is put for the whole person, and which being taken away...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean. Ver. 14. _They die in youth_] They die before their time, as Solomon expresseth it; then, when it were better for them to do anything than to...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But the hypocrites in heart_ Such as are truly void of that piety which they profess; _heap up wrath_ By their impenitence and obstinacy in all conditions they treasure up God's wrath against themsel...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BENEVOLENT PURPOSES OF DIVINE JUSTICE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    They die in youth, they must perish in consequence of their attitude, AND THEIR LIFE IS AMONG THE UNCLEAN, among the polluted and effeminate slaves of vice, as they were found in the heathen temples o...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THEY DIE: _ Heb._ Their soul dieth UNCLEAN: Or, Sodomites...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "THEY DIE IN YOUTH, AND THEIR LIFE PERISHES AMONG THE CULT PROSTITUTES": Literally the expression "cult prostitutes" means "consecrated ones", that is males and females given over to depraved rites. ...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-14 Elihu here shows that God acts as righteous Governor. He is always ready to defend those that are injured. If our eye is ever toward God in duty, his eye will be ever upon us in mercy, and, when...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY DIE IN YOUTH; they provoke God to cut them off before their time. Heb. _Their soul_ (i.e. they themselves) _shall die in youth_. _Their life is_; or, _their life_ shall die or be extinct; which v...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 36:14 They H5315 die H4191 (H8799) youth H5290 life H2416 persons H6945 They die - Heb. Their soul dieth,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:1 Elihu concludes his lengthy speech. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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)....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:13 Elihu describes those who hold onto their ANGER rather than crying out when God BINDS them through affliction (see v. Job 36:

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 23:17; Genesis 19:24; Genesis 19:25; Genesis 19:5;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Die — They provoke God to cut them off before their time. Unclean — Or, Sodomites; to whose destruction, he may allude. They shall die by some exemplary stroke of Divine vengeance. Yea, and after deat...

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