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CHAPTER XXXIV
_Elihu begins with an exhortation to Job's friends_, 1-4;
_charges Job with accusing God of acting unrighteously, which_
_he shows is impossible_, 5-12;
_points out the power and jud...
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FURTHERMORE, ELIHU ANSWERED AND SAID - That is, evidently, after a
pause to see if Job had anything to reply. The word answered in the
Scriptures often means “to begin a discourse,” though nothing had...
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CHAPTER 34
_ 1. Hear my words ye wise men (Job 34:1)_
2. The refutation of Job's accusation of God (Job 34:5)
3. Job needs testing to the end (Job 34:31)...
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Elihu summons the wise men who hear him to seek a right decision. Job
has accused God of injustice, when he is innocent. But in reality Job
is the worst of scorners, for he denies the profit of religi...
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ANSWERED. addressed. See note on Job 4:1....
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_ELIHU ACCUSETH JOB OF CHARGING GOD WITH INJUSTICE: HE AVERS, THAT THE
ALMIGHTY CAN NEVER ACT UNJUSTLY; AND THAT HUMILITY AND SUBMISSION WERE
REQUIRED FROM MAN TOWARDS SO GREAT A BEING._
_Before Chr...
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C.
THE SOURCE OF JUSTICE (Job 34:1-37)
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Job is walking with wicked men when he attributes injustice to God.
(Job 34:1-9)
TEXT 34:1-9
1 MOREOVER ELIHU ANSWERED AND SAID,
2 Hear my words, ye wis...
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_FURTHERMORE ELIHU ANSWERED AND SAID,_
Answered - proceeded....
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THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED)
1-9. Elihu appeals to his hearers to judge the matter. He protests
against the complaints of Job that he was treated unjustly by God, and
that it was no profit to be...
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Elihu heard the other men’s arguments. They all insisted that they
were wise. If they really were wise, then they should be ready to
listen to other people’s opinions. When they had heard Elihu’s
opin...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
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CHAPTER 34
ELIHU DISCUSSES THE SPEE...
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XXXIV.
(1) FURTHERMORE ELIHU. — Elihu here hardly makes good the profession
with which he starts, for he begins immediately to accuse Job in no
measured language. Elihu makes, indeed, a great professi...
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וַ יַּ֥עַן אֱלִיה֗וּא וַ יֹּאמַֽר׃...
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XXV.
POST-EXILIC WISDOM
Job 32:1; Job 33:1; Job 34:1
A PERSONAGE hitherto unnamed in the course of the drama now assumes
the place of critic and judge between Job and his friends. Elihu, son
of Bara...
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THE ALMIGHTY MUST BE JUST
Job 34:1
Elihu stands in Job 34:10 as God's apologist. God's absolute and
impartial justice is at all times a matter of untold comfort. There
will be no cause of ultimate co...
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Job gave no answer to the challenge, and Elihu proceeded. He first
appealed to the wise men, asked that they would listen in order to try
his words. He then made two quotations from the things Job had...
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CONTENTS
Elihu still prosecutes his animated discourse, through this chapter.
He is still reproving Job, but in such a way of gentleness, that the
Patriarch makes no appeal against it....
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(1) В¶ Furthermore Elihu answered and said, (2) Hear my words, O ye
wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. (3) For the
ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. (4) Let us choose t...
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3. NOW ON TO CHAPTER 34
H. Job 34:1-9 (NKJV) Elihu further answered and said:
2 "Hear my words, you wise [men]; Give ear to me, you who have
knowledge.
3 For the ear tests words As the palate taste...
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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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FURTHERMORE ELIHU ANSWERED AND SAID. It is reasonable to suppose that
Elihu made a considerable pause, to see whether Job would make any
reply to what he had delivered, or object to what he had said;...
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Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
Ver. 1. _Furthermore Elihu answered and said_] _i.e._ He prosecuted
his former discourse, he thus pronounced (as the Vulgate hath it) in
answer to some of Job's f...
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_Furthermore Elihu answered and said_ Job making no reply to what
Elihu had said, probably because he saw that he had touched the
particular point in which he was especially defective, Elihu carries
t...
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JOB ACCUSED OF FALSEHOOD AND BLASPHEMY...
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Furthermore Elihu answered and said, in further refuting Job's charge
that God was acting in a cruel and unjust manner,...
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HIS APPEAL AS TO WISE MEN
(vv.1-4)
Since Job had wisely refrained from speaking, Elihu makes an appeal to
all his hearers, as to wise men (v.2). This reminds us of1 Corinthians
10:15, "I speak as to...
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Here is his introduction. He will quote Job (Job 12:11) when he
referred to the need for the debaters to test the accuracy of his
words as the tongue discerns the quality of food. They need to decide...
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1-9 Elihu calls upon those present to decide with him upon Job's
words. The plainest Christian, whose mind is enlightened, whose heart
is sanctified by the Spirit of God, and who is versed in the
Scr...
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JOB CHAPTER 34 He accuseth Job for charging God with injustice, JOB
34:1. God, the almighty Disposer, Governor, and Judge of the world,
cannot be unjust, JOB 34:10. It is not fit to say of kings and p...
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Job 34:1 Elihu H453 answered H6030 (H8799) said H559 (H8799)...
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Job 34:1. _Furthermore Elihu answered and said, Hear my words, O ye
wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. For the ear
trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat._
I wish that verse was...
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CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. He magnifies God's holiness.
CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: It is absurd and unreasonable to multiply words in
complaint against God's ways....
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Job 34:5. _Job hath said God hath taken away my judgment._ See on Job
27:2. Elihu, in every accusation, takes or turns Job's words in a
wrong sense. Job meant that God had varied, in regard of him, th...
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_ELIHU’S SECOND SPEECH_
Probably after waiting for a reply from Job, and none being
forthcoming, Elihu resumes. Job 34:1.—“Furthermore Elihu answered
(took up speech), and said”. Job’s silence probabl...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 34:1
In this chapter Elihu turns from Job to those whom he addresses as
"wise men" (verse 2), or "men of understanding" (verse 10). Whether
these are Job's three special friends, or ot...
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Furthermore Elihu went on then [Job didn't answer], he said, Hear my
words, O ye wise men; give ear unto me, that have knowledge. For the
ear tries words, as the mouth tastes meat (Job 34:1-3).
That'...
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Job 18:14...
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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