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Job 36:8-15

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).

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See also Job 36:8-15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 36:8. _AND IF_ THEY BE _BOUND IN FETTERS_] These are _means_ which God uses, not of _punishment_, but of _correction_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND IF THEY BE BOUND IN FETTERS - That is, if the righteous are thrown into prison, and are subjected to oppressions and trials, or if they are chained down, as it were, on a bed of pain, or crushed b...

  • 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

    The expression "fetters" is rather to be taken figuratively, meaning affliction or adversity, as "cords of affliction" in the next clause suggests....

  • 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....

  • 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

    MADE HE THEM] The subject down to Exodus 38:31 is Bezaleel: cp. Exodus 37:1; Exodus 38:22....

  • 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

    וְ אִם ־אֲסוּרִ֥ים בַּ † זִּקִּ֑ים יִ֝לָּכְד֗וּן...

  • 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

    AND IF [THEY BE] BOUND IN FETTERS,.... Not the wicked, as the Targum, but the righteous spoken of in Job 36:7, with which this is closely connected; and this is not to be understood of righteous kings...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And if [they be] bound in fetters, [and] be holden in cords of affliction; Ver. 8. _And if they be bound in fetters_] If it so happens, that through abuse of their prosperity and preferment, they wan...

  • 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

    And if they be bound in fetters, held so firmly in their affliction that they cannot move, AND BE HOLDEN IN CORDS OF AFFLICTION, in every form of distress,...

  • 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

    Yet even the righteous can get caught in affliction. "Sometimes righteous people undergo trials (are bound by chains) and are subjected to affliction (such as being chained, held fast by cords, to. be...

  • 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

    If through the vicissitude of worldly affairs, and the righteous judgment of God upon them for their sins, they be brought from their throne into a prison, as sometimes hath been done....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 36:8 bound H631 (H8803) fetters H2131 Held H3920 (H8735) cords H2256 affliction H6040 if -...

  • 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 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

    Job 13:27; Job 19:6; Job 33:18; Job 33:19; Lamentations 3:9;...

  • 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

    If — Through the vicissitude of worldly affairs, they are brought from their throne into a prison, as sometimes hath been done....

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