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Job 37:19-21

We have no right to speak to God, except the right that God has given to us. We do not deserve God’s help. Everybody has done evil things. God will only forgive us because of the things that he himself has done. God himself sent Jesus to suffer the punishment for our evil deeds.

If God wanted, we would all die instantly (Job 34:14-15). But the wonderful news is that God loves us. God even wanted to speak to Job (chapter 38). God wanted to forgive Job’s friends (Job 42:7-8).

God is great because of his power. But God is also great because of his love.

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See also Job 37:19-21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 37:19. _TEACH US WHAT WE SHALL SAY UNTO HIM?_] Thou pretendest to be so very wise, and to know every thing about God, pray make us as wise as thyself, that we may be able to approach with t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TEACH US WHAT WE SHALL SAY UNTO HIM - This seems to be addressed to Job. It is the language of Elihu, implying that he was overawed with a sense of the majesty and glory of such a God. He knew not in...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    How can he, whose mind is dark, address God? Shall I invite Him to converse and court destruction? (Job 37:19 f.). In Job 37:21 follow _mg._ And now men cannot look on the light when it is bright in t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job 36:26-33. The greatness and unsearchableness of God, seen in His marvellous operations in the skies; and exhortation to Job to allow these wonders duly to impress him, and to bow beneath the great...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Elihu's own imagination kindles at the thought of the wonders which he is unfolding, and he beseeches Job to observe them with a reverent awe, and learn from them the unsearchableness of Him who is th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This thought of the strong expanse of heaven stretched out by God suggests to Elihu His unspeakable greatness and unsearchableness, and he demands of Job with what words of man such a Being is to be a...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TEACH US WHAT WE SHALL SAY— The author here gives us an evident proof of his great skill in the management of the drama, as he by degrees prepares us for the appearance of the Almighty. His awful harb...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. Man should realize his insignificant position and fear God. (Job 37:14-24) TEXT 37:14-24 14 HEARKEN UNTO THIS, O JOB: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. 15 Dost thou know how...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _TEACH US WHAT WE SHALL SAY UNTO HIM; FOR WE CANNOT ORDER OUR SPEECH BY REASON OF DARKNESS._ Men cannot explain God's wonders; we ought, therefore, to be dumb, and not contend with God. If Job thinks...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONCLUDED) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29. SOUND] RM 'muttering.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TEACH US WHAT WE SHALL SAY UNTO (or, _concerning_) HIM — _i.e._, the sun. “He is altogether hidden by the clouds; but is he gone? is he not still there behind them?”...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֹ֖ודִיעֵנוּ מַה ־נֹּ֣אמַר לֹ֑ו לֹ֥א ־נַ֝עֲרֹ֗ךְ...

  • 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

    THE LIGHT IN THE CLOUDS Job 37:1 As Elihu spoke a thunder-storm was gathering, and much of the imagery of this chapter is suggested by that fact. The little group listened to the sound of God's voice...

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

    The description of the storm commenced in the previous chapter and is here completed. There is first the drawing up of the water into the clouds, their spreading over the sky, the strange mutterings o...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Teach us what we shall say unto him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of (p) darkness. (p) That is, our ignorance: signifying that Job was so presumptuous, that he would control the works...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Darkness. Thou who art so learned, give us some information, what we may blame in the works of God. Cutting irony! (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (14) В¶ Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. (15) Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? (16) Dost thou know the b...

  • 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

    TEACH US WHAT WE SHALL SAY UNTO HIM,.... To this wonder working God, of whose common works of nature we know so little; how we should reason with him about his works of Providence, when we know so lit...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Teach us what we shall say unto him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of darkness. Ver. 19. _Teach us what we shall say unto him_] A notable scoff, a sharp sarcasm. _Verba sunt urgentis e...

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

    _Hast thou, with him, spread out the sky_ Wast thou his assistant in spreading out the sky, like a canopy, over the earth? _Which is strong_ Which, though it be very thin and transparent, yet is also...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Teach us what we shall say unto Him, how mortal man may argue with the almighty Creator and Preserver of the world; FOR WE CANNOT ORDER OUR SPEECH BY REASON OF DARKNESS, man's understanding being inca...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    FINAL ADMONITION ADDRESSED TO JOB...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    MAN'S IMPOTENCE IN THE STORM (vv.1-5) As the storm breaks upon them, Elihu himself trembles (v.1). The thunder of God's voice calls for man's close attention and His lightning spreads over the whole...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Elihu now challenges Job to tell him what he should say if he dared approach God. Remember, Job had declared that he wanted to meet with God and present his case (Job 13:18), Elihu reminds Job that he...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-20 Due thoughts of the works of God will help to reconcile us to all his providences. As God has a powerful, freezing north wind, so he has a thawing, composing south wind: the Spirit is compared...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    UNTO HIM, i.e. unto God, either by way of apology for thee; or rather, by way of debate and disputation with him about his counsels and ways: about which we know not what to say, and therefore are wil...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 37:19 Teach H3045 (H8685) say H559 (H8799) prepare H6186 (H8799) because H6440 darkness H2822 Teach -

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. God's majesty. CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job. CONCLUSION: We must all own that our finite understandings cannot comprehend the infinite perfections of God, but w...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 37:5. _God thundereth marvellously with his voice._ See on Psalms 29. This chapter is divided from the former, in the midst of a sublime description of a storm. Job 37:22. The golden splendour _co...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Teach us what we shall say unto Him._ MAN AND GOD I. Suggestions concerning man. 1. The sublimest act, speaking to God. “Teach us what we shall say unto Him; for we cannot order our speech by reas...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 37:14 Elihu focuses on God’s majesty. He calls on Job to listen (HEAR THIS, O JOB) and consider this description in his complaint before God....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH CONTINUED_ Elihu continues his discourse, apparently in the midst of loud thunder-claps, suddenly issuing from the storm-cloud out of which the Almighty was about to speak, and...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 37:1 It has been already remarked that there is no natural division between Job 36:1 and Job 37:1.—the description of the thunderstorm and its effects runs on. From its effect on cattl...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    At this also my heart trembled, and is moved out of his place. Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth. He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightni...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 13:12; 1 John 3:2; Job 12:3; Job 13:3; Job 13:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Teach us — If thou canst. Say unto him — Of these things. Order — To maintain discourse with him, both because of the darkness of the matter, God's counsels being a great depth; and because of the dar...

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