Mark Dunagan Commentaries
Job 36:24
As. result Job should magnify God, as others had done in song instead of criticizing Him. In this passage "God's work" including His work in allowing Job to suffer.
As. result Job should magnify God, as others had done in song instead of criticizing Him. In this passage "God's work" including His work in allowing Job to suffer.
Verse Job 36:24. _REMEMBER THAT THOU MAGNIFY HIS WORK_] Take this into consideration; instead of fretting against the dispensations of Divine providence, and quarrelling with thy Maker, attentively s...
REMEMBER THAT THOU MAGNIFY HIS WORK - Make this a great and settled principle, to remember that God is “great” in all that he does. He is exalted far above us, and all his works are on a scale of vast...
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 ...
God is great who can teach like Him? Can man command or criticise Him? Man's part is to magnify his work in psalms, though only beholding it from afar, and unable to comprehend it....
MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'enosh_. App-14....
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...
Application to Job of the principles in regard to affliction just enunciated by Elihu. Job 36:16 are difficult and have been understood in a great variety of ways. The general sense expressed by the...
Instead of murmuring Job should bow under the mighty hand of God, who through the operations of His providence is a great teacher of men (Job 36:22); who is supreme (Job 36:23); and whose work all men...
_which men behold_ Rather, WHICH MEN DO SING, that is, celebrate with praise....
3. God knows what he is doing and his work should be magnified. (Job 36:22-33) TEXT 36:22-33 22 BEHOLD, GOD DOETH LOFTILY IN HIS POWER: Who is a teacher like onto him? 23 Who hath enjoined him his...
_BEHOLD, GOD EXALTETH BY HIS POWER: WHO TEACHETH LIKE HIM?_ God is not to be impiously arraigned, but to be praised for His might, shown in His works. EXALTETH - rather х_ YASGIYB_ (H7682)], doeth...
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...
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....
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...
Many people advise their friends about God. And perhaps such people speak well. But their words are only ideas. They never guide their friends to have a real experience of God. Elihu did not want to...
WHICH MEN BEHOLD. — Some render it, “Whereof men sing,” but the other seems to suit the context best....
זְ֭כֹר כִּֽי ־תַשְׂגִּ֣יא פָעֳלֹ֑ו אֲשֶׁ֖ר שֹׁרְר֣וּ...
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...
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...
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...
_Not, is omitted in Hebrew and Septuagint. "Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold;" Protestants, (Haydock) or "thou hast magnified," formerly. Do so again. --- Sung. The memory of grea...
(22) Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? (23) Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? (24) В¶ Remember that thou magnify his work, which men be...
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...
REMEMBER THAT THOU MAGNIFY HIS WORK,.... Or his works; his works of creation and providence, which are great in themselves, and declare the greatness of God; and which, though they cannot be made grea...
Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. Ver. 24. _Remember that thou magnify his work_] His work of creation; wherein the wisdom, power, and goodness of God is clearly manifested, Roma...
_Remember_ Call to mind this thy duty; _that thou magnify his work_ Every work which he doth; do not condemn any of his providential works, but adore them as done with admirable wisdom and justice. _B...
Remember that thou magnify His work, which men behold, exalting the doing of the great Creator, about which men have always sung hymns of praise....
THE DIVINE JUSTICE AS SUPREME POWER AND WISDOM...
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....
24-33 Elihu endeavours to fill Job with high thought of God, and so to persuade him into cheerful submission to his providence. Man may see God's works, and is capable of discerning his hand in them,...
REMEMBER; call to mind this thy duty, and take this matter into thy more serious thoughts, and it will prevent thy horrible mistakes and miscarriages. THAT; so this Hebrew particle is used here, JOB 3...
Job 36:24 Remember H2142 (H8798) magnify H7679 (H8686) work H6467 men H582 sung H7891 (H8790) magnify -...
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...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:1 Elihu concludes his lengthy speech. ⇐ ⇔...
_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...
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...
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...
Daniel 4:3; Daniel 4:37; Deuteronomy 4:19; Jeremiah 10:12; Job 12:13;
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
Remember — Call to mind this thy duty. Magnify — Every work which he doth; do not condemn any of his providential works, but adore them as done with admirable wisdom, and justice. Behold — With admira...