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Job 36:10

JOB—NOTE ON Job 36:10 When Elihu says that God opens the ears (also v. Job 36:15), he is continuing his point from an earlier speech (see Job 33:14, Job 33:16). He suggests ways in which God has been speaking and Job may be failing to listen.

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See also Job 36:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 36:10. _HE OPENETH ALSO THEIR EAR_] He gives them to _understand_ the reason why they are thus corrected, and commands them to _return_ from those iniquities which have induced him to visit...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HE OPENETH ALSO THEIR EAR TO DISCIPLINE - To teaching; or he makes them willing to learn the lessons which their afflictions are designed to teach; coral). See the notes at Job 33:16....

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aven_. App-44. Not the same word as Job 36:23....

  • 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

    If life often appears to present a different picture and men are seen in affliction, this affliction is a discipline, needful to warn them and bring their evil before them....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The meaning of afflictions they are a divine warning and stimulus to rouse men out of a sinful lethargy and bring their sin to their remembrance....

  • 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

    _AND IF THEY BE BOUND IN FETTERS, AND BE HOLDEN IN CORDS OF AFFLICTION;_ If they be afflicted, it is no proof that they are hypocrites, as the friends maintain; or that God disregards them, and is in...

  • 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

    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....

  • 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

    God is kind. He is even kind to people who are proud and evil. Elihu described a man whose attitudes were terrible. This man was both proud and evil. Job’s friends thought that God would kill such a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּ֣גֶל אָ֭זְנָם לַ † מּוּסָ֑ר וַ֝...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Ear, by secret inspirations, or by the admonition of pastors. (Calmet) --- Afflictions will also speak louder to them than any orator. (Haydock)_...

  • 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

    HE OPENETH ALSO THEIR EAR TO DISCIPLINE,.... Or "to correction" o; to the rod of correction; to hear the voice of it and him that has appointed it; its reproving voice for sin, its directing voice to...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. Ver. 10. _He openeth also their ear to discipline_] See on Job 33:16 . _ And commandeth that they return from i...

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

    _If they be bound in fetters_ If, through the vicissitude of worldly affairs, they are brought from their throne into a prison, as sometimes hath been done. _Then he showeth them their work_ Their evi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    He openeth also their ear to discipline, in admonishing them to lay aside their pride, AND COMMANDETH THAT THEY RETURN FROM INIQUITY, from the vanity of the various forms of transgression into which t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BENEVOLENT PURPOSES OF DIVINE JUSTICE...

  • 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

    Suffering and pain also have the ability to open. person's ears to instruction and getting back on the right path. "By hardships God can get. man's attention and bring him out of sin" _(p. 73)._ Compa...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-26 As in prosperity we are ready to think our mountain will never be brought low; so when in adversity, we are ready to think our valley will never be filled up. But to conclude that to-morrow mus...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. He enableth and inclineth them to hearken to what God speaks by the rod, who would not hear in the time of their prosperity; like them JEREMIAH 22:21. TO DISCIPLINE; or, _to instruction_, i.e. to...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 36:10 opens H1540 (H8799) ear H241 instruction H4148 commands H559 (H8799) turn H7725 (H8799) iniquity...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 36:10 Discipline is the art or system of learning generally any little things. It is very much the same as instruction or education. But because teaching or education is often a very hard thing, a...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _He openeth their ear to discipline._ DISCIPLINE 1. Notice the discipline which God uses in His family. Many of us are froward children and need discipline. Job needed it, and had it; we are not told...

  • 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

    Acts 16:14; Acts 17:30; Acts 3:19; Ezekiel 18:30; Ezekiel 18:31;...

  • 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

    Openeth — He inclines them to hearken to what God speaks by the rod....

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