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Job 36:11,12

God gives an opportunity for people to confess their evil deeds to him. God wants them to trust him. But God does not force anybody to change. In the end, God will be the judge of everybody.

God punishes wicked people but he cares about poor people

v13 Wicked people are angry. When God punishes them, they do not ask him to help them. v14 So, they die when they are young. They are among those that men hand over for an evil life.

v15 But God teaches poor people while they are suffering. And God speaks to them by means of their troubles.

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See also Job 36:11,12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 36:11. _IF THEY OBEY AND SERVE_ HIM] There may appear in the course of Providence to be some exceptions to this _general rule_; but it is most true, that this is literally or spiritually ful...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IF THEY OBEY AND SERVE HIM - That is, if, as the result of their afflictions, they repent of their sins, seek his mercy, and serve him in time to come, they shall be prospered still. The design of aff...

  • 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

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Such afflictions, though graciously meant, may have different issues according as men receive them. On the expression "the sword" in Job 36:12 see ch. Job 33:18....

  • 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

    _IF THEY OBEY AND SERVE HIM, THEY SHALL SPEND THEIR DAYS IN PROSPERITY, AND THEIR YEARS IN PLEASURES._ Serve - i:e. worship; as in Isaiah 19:23 God is to be supplied (cf. Isaiah 19:20)....

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEY SHALL SPEND THEIR DAYS IN PROSPERITY. — It is, perhaps, not more easy to reconcile this teaching of Elihu’s with the realities of actual fact than it is the notions of Job’s friends as to direct...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִֽם ־יִשְׁמְע֗וּ וְֽ יַ֫עֲבֹ֥דוּ יְכַלּ֣וּ יְמֵיהֶ֣ם...

  • 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...

  • 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

    IF THEY OBEY AND SERVE [HIM],.... That is, God, to whom so many things are ascribed in the preceding verses; and who only is to be obeyed and served in a religious way, with the obedience of faith and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    If they obey and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. Ver. 11. _If they obey and serve him, they shall, &c._] Heb. they shall finish, they shall spend...

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

    _If they obey_ God's admonition and command; _they shall spend their days in prosperity_ They shall be restored to their former prosperity, and shall live and die in it. This he says according to the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BENEVOLENT PURPOSES OF DIVINE JUSTICE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    If they obey and serve Him, yielding to His entreaties, THEY SHALL SPEND THEIR DAYS IN PROSPERITY AND THEIR YEARS IN PLEASURES, as the result of God's blessings upon them....

  • 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....

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Those who hearken to such lessons will end up blessed and those who refuse to learn will perish in their ignorance. This may be. warning to Job that Job, even though he is righteous and knowledgeable,...

  • 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

    IF THEY OBEY God's admonition and command. THEY SHALL SPEND THEIR DAYS IN PROSPERITY; they shall be restored to their farmer prosperity, and shall live and die in it. This he speaks according to the t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 36:11 obey H8085 (H8799) serve H5647 (H8799) spend H3615 (H8762) days H3117 prosperity H2896 years...

  • 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 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 4:30; Ecclesiastes 9:2; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Hebrews 11:8;...

  • 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

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