Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Job 36:25
The verse is better without the "may" of the A. V.
All men look thereon,
Man beholdeth it afar off.
Men look on God's work, His operations, with wonder and awe.
The verse is better without the "may" of the A. V.
All men look thereon,
Man beholdeth it afar off.
Men look on God's work, His operations, with wonder and awe.
Verse Job 36:25. _EVERY MAN MAY SEE IT_] He who says he can examine the earth with a philosophic eye, and the heavens with the eye of an astronomer, and yet says he cannot see in them a system of infi...
EVERY MAN MAY SEE IT - That is, every man may look on the visible creation, and see proofs there of the wisdom and greatness of God. All may look on the sun, the moon, the stars; all may behold the te...
CHAPTER S 36:22--37:24 _ 1. God's power and presence in nature (Job 36:22)_ 2. The thunderstorm (Job 37:1) 3. The snow and the rain (Job 37:6) 4. Elihu's concluding remarks ...
God is great who can teach like Him? Can man command or criticise Him? Man's part is to magnify his work in psalms, though only beholding it from afar, and unable to comprehend it....
EVERY MAN. Hebrew every. _adam_. App-14. MAN MAY BEHOLD. all mankind have gazed....
3. God knows what he is doing and his work should be magnified. (Job 36:22-33) TEXT 36:22-33 22 BEHOLD, GOD DOETH LOFTILY IN HIS POWER: Who is a teacher like onto him? 23 Who hath enjoined him his...
_BEHOLD, GOD EXALTETH BY HIS POWER: WHO TEACHETH LIKE HIM?_ God is not to be impiously arraigned, but to be praised for His might, shown in His works. EXALTETH - rather х_ YASGIYB_ (H7682)], doeth...
36:25 man (g-6) _ Enosh_ . Psalms 8:4 ....
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....
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...
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...
Soon, the men would have an experience of God’s greatness. They would watch a powerful storm. Afterwards, God would speak. A STORM APPROACHES V27 God gathers the water to make the rain. V28 He cause...
כָּל ־אָדָ֥ם חָֽזוּ ־בֹ֑ו אֱ֝נֹ֗ושׁ יַבִּ֥יט...
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...
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...
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...
Every man may see it; man may behold [it] (q) afar off. (q) The works of God are revealed, that a man may see them afar off, and know God by the same....
_All. The rest of this chapter, and the five first verses of the next, seem to be inserted in the Septuagint from Theodotion. "Every man sees in himself how many mortals are wounded," &c. --- Off, in...
(22) Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? (23) Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? (24) В¶ Remember that thou magnify his work, which men be...
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...
EVERY MAN MAY SEE IT,.... Not only was to be seen by the wise and learned, the just and good, but by the common people; whether it is to be understood of the works of creation, or of the afflictive pr...
Every man may see it; man may behold [it] afar off. Ver. 25. _Every man may see it_] _sc._ _In quo est vel mica bonae mentis; _ for a brutish man knoweth it not, Psalms 92:6,7. But _stupidus est, et...
_Remember_ Call to mind this thy duty; _that thou magnify his work_ Every work which he doth; do not condemn any of his providential works, but adore them as done with admirable wisdom and justice. _B...
THE DIVINE JUSTICE AS SUPREME POWER AND WISDOM...
Every man may see it, all people gazing on it with delight, with wondering admiration; MAN MAY BEHOLD IT AFAR OFF, mortals stand in reverent contemplation of God's unparalleled majesty....
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....
"The eternal God is so great that men are compelled to hold Him in profound awe from afar. The young man's point here is quite valuable. If men would spend more time reflecting upon the marvelous maje...
24-33 Elihu endeavours to fill Job with high thought of God, and so to persuade him into cheerful submission to his providence. Man may see God's works, and is capable of discerning his hand in them,...
MAY SEE IT, to wit, his work, last mentioned. The power, and wisdom, and greatness of God is so manifest in all his works, that all who are not blind or stupid must needs see and acknowledge it. MAN M...
Job 36:25 Everyone H120 seen H2372 (H8804) Man H582 looks H5027 (H8686) afar H7350...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
Job 28:24; Job 35:5; Job 39:29; Job 6:19...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
It — The power, and wisdom, and greatness of God are so manifest in all his works, that all who are not stupid, must see and acknowledge it. Afar off — The works of God are so great and conspicuous, t...