Job has complained that God will not answer him. "Well, He is not required to give account to humanity" (Jackson p. 70). It seems that Elihu thinks that Job is being childish for thinking that God must give account for everything He does and that He must answer everyone's question.
Verse Job 33:13. _WHY DOST THOU STRIVE AGAINST HIM?_] Is it not useless to contend with God? Can he do any thing that is _not right_? As to his giving thee _any account_ of the _reasons why he deals...
WHY DOST THOU STRIVE AGAINST HIM? - By refusing to submit to him, and by calling in question his wisdom and goodness. FOR HE GIVETH NOT ACCOUNT OF ANY OF HIS MATTERS - Margin, as in Hebrew “answereth...
CHAPTER 33:8-33 _ 1. Elihu rebukes Job (Job 33:8)_ 2. How God deals with man (Job 33:14) 3. How God in grace recovers (Job 33:23) 4. Mark well, Job, hearken unto me ...
When Elihu gives the general answer to Job's charges against God that "God is greater than man" he means that the moral loftiness of God's nature made it impossible that He should act in the arbitrary...
3. God has answered Job in two waysto discipline him. (Job 33:13-22) a. In dreams, to draw him from the fate of an evil course (Job 33:13-18) TEXT 33:13-18 13 Why dost thou strive against him, Fo...
_WHY DOST THOU STRIVE AGAINST HIM? FOR HE GIVETH NOT ACCOUNT OF ANY OF HIS MATTERS._ Why dost thou strive against him? (Isaiah 45:9.) HIS MATTERS - ways; literally, words. The Hebrew idiom uses "wor...
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-13. Elihu blames Job for regarding himself as sinless, and complaining that' God is his enemy and will not answer him....
FOR] i.e. 'because.' Why does Job complain because God does not explain His treatment of him? God does answer man, as he proceeds to point out in two ways. 14-30. Elihu especially insists that the pur...
Job blamed God. And Job thought that God might never help him (Job 24:1). But God is always good. Even when Job was suffering, God was helping Job. God had a message for Job (Chapter s 38-41). But wh...
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 33 ELIHU SPEAKS TO JOB V1...
WHY DOST THOU STRIVE AGAINST HIM? — Job had not striven against God, he had only expressed his longing to come into judgment with Him (Job 23:3, &c.). Job was striving with and against the darkness th...
מַ֭דּוּעַ אֵלָ֣יו רִיבֹ֑ותָ כִּ֥י כָל ־דְּ֝בָרָ֗יו...
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...
THE INTERPRETER Job 33:1 It is not wonderful that Elihu has been mistaken for the Mediator Himself, so helpfully does he interpose between Job and his Maker. He dwells especially on his own likeness...
Elihu began his direct appeal to Job by asking his attention, assuring him of sincerity in motive, and finally declaring that he spoke to him as a comrade, not as a judge, or one who would fill him wi...
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not (e) account of any of his matters. (e) The cause of his judgments is not always declared to man....
_Because. Septuagint, "Thou hast said, Why has not He heard every word of my pleading or judgment." Aquila and Theodotion, "for all his words are unanswerable." Protestants, "He giveth not account of...
(8) В¶ Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, (9) I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. (10) Behold, he f...
Elihu's Speeches I. INTRODUCTION A. In our last study of the book of Job (Chapter s 11-14), - Job had just replied to Zophar's speech. 1. Chapter 14 concludes the "first round" of speeches by Job's...
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...
WHY DOST THOU STRIVE AGAINST HIM?.... A creature against the Creator, a man against his Maker, the clay against the potter; how absurd and stupid is this! and a piece of weakness and folly it was in h...
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters. Ver. 13. _Why dost thou strive against him?_] Why dost thou wrangle and reason it thus irreverently with God, whose...
_Why dost thou strive against him?_ Upon what grounds, and for what ends? What advantage dost thou expect from it? Why dost thou presume to dispute with him, and call him to an account for his actions...
OF THE TRUE RELATION OF SINFUL MAN TOWARD GOD...
Why dost thou strive against Him, with such murmurings and contentions as Elihu had heard? FOR HE GIVETH NOT ACCOUNT OF ANY OF HIS MATTERS, He is not compelled to give an account of His judgments and...
HE SPEAKS AS A MEDIATOR (vv.1-7) Elihu did not take any haughty and unfeeling attitude as did Job's three friends, but speaks with simple humility, entreating Job to hear and consider what he says ...
HE GIVETH NOT ACCOUNT: _ Heb._ he answereth not...
8-13 Elihu charges Job with reflecting upon the justice and goodness of God. When we hear any thing said to God's dishonour, we ought to bear our testimony against it. Job had represented God as seve...
WHY? upon what grounds and for what ends? What advantage dost thou expect from it? DOST THOU STRIVE AGAINST HIM, to wit, in a judicial way? See JOB 8:6. HE GIVETH NOT ACCOUNT OF ANY OF HIS MATTERS; he...
Job 33:13 contend H7378 (H8804) accounting H6030 (H8799) words H1697 strive - Job 9:14,...
This is part of the speech of young Elihu, who had listened with much patience, but also with great indignation, to the harsh speeches of Job's three friends and to Job's self-righteous answers. Job...
This is a speech of young Elihu, who had sat quietly listening to the taunting words of the three «candid friends» of Job, and to the somewhat exasperated replies of the patriarch. At last, the young...
CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. Affliction is shown to be discipline. CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job. CONCLUSION: God often afflicts the body in love and with gracious designs of good to the sou...
Job 33:4. _The Spirit of God hath made me._ See on Genesis 2:7, and Psalms 33:6. The creation of man was known to all the descendants of Noah, much the same as to Moses. Sanchoniatho the Phœnician his...
_God is greater than man._ Why dost thou strive with Him? MAN’S CONTENTIONS, WITH GOD The mysterious meeting place of the Divine and human wills. Unknown by us and undiscoverable. Both wills are op...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 33:1 Elihu opens and closes this section with a call for Job to listen to his words and answer if he is able (vv. Job 33:1,...
_ELIHU’S FIRST SPEECH_ Elihu addresses himself to Job on the subject of God’s afflictive dispensations. Afflictions often disciplinary chastisements. I. HE BESPEAKS JOB’S CAREFUL ATTENTION TO ALL TH...
EXPOSITION JOB 33:1 In this chapter Elihu, turning away from the "comforters," proceeds to address Job himself, offering to reason out the matter in dispute with him, in God's stead. After a brief e...
Wherefore, Job, [he said,] I pray thee, now hear my speech, hearken to all my words. Behold, I've opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth. My words shall be of uprightness of my heart: and m...
1 Corinthians 10:22; Acts 1:7; Acts 5:39; Acts 9:4; Acts 9:5;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
He — Useth not to give an account to his creatures of the grounds and reasons of his judgments or dispensations as being the supreme governor of all persons and things, in whose will it becometh all m...