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Verse Job 36:15. _AND OPENETH THEIR EARS IN OPPRESSION._] He will let
them know for what end they are afflicted, and _why_ he permits them
to be oppressed. The word יגל _yigel_ might be translated _he...
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HE DELIVERETH THE POOR IN HIS AFFLICTION - Margin, “or afflicted.”
This accords better with the usual meaning of the Hebrew word (עני
_‛__ânı̂y_) and with the connection. The inquiry was not
particul...
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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
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The godless cherish angry thoughts about God's discipline they refuse
to cry for God's help (Job 36:13). They die young, perishing like the
sodomites (those religiously consecrated to unnatural vice;...
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The verse goes back to the great general principle of the use of
affliction in God's hand (Job 36:8 _seq_.), in order to connect with
it the case of Job, and to found an exhortation to him upon it (Jo...
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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...
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HE DELIVERETH THE POOR IN HIS AFFLICTION— _Whilst,_ or, _but he
delivereth,_ &c....
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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...
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_BUT THE HYPOCRITES IN HEART HEAP UP WRATH: THEY CRY NOT WHEN HE
BINDETH THEM._
Same sentiment as Job 36:11 expanded.
Verse 13. HYPOCRITES - or, the ungodly (Maurer); but "hypocrites" is
perhaps a d...
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RM 'He delivereth the afflicted by their afflictions, and openeth
their ears by adversity.' Such are the effects of God's discipline
when taken in the right spirit.
16-21. Elihu applies these remarks...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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God helps good people who suffer. He was teaching Job, even while Job
was suffering. Job was learning about heaven (Job 19:25-27) and hell
(Job 26:5-6). Job was learning about wisdom (chapter 28). Job...
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HE DELIVERETH THE POOR IN HIS AFFLICTION. — The point of Elihu’s
discourse is rather that He delivereth the afflicted by his
affliction; He makes use of the very affliction to deliver him by it
as a m...
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יְחַלֵּ֣ץ עָנִ֣י בְ עָנְיֹ֑ו וְ
יִ֖גֶל בַּ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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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HE DELIVERETH THE POOR IN HIS AFFLICTION,.... The righteous or godly
poor; who are not only poor in worldly things, but poor in spirit; who
are humbled, brought low, and made contrite, through the aff...
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He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in
oppression.
Ver. 15. _He delivereth the poor in his affliction_] Oft in this
life, as he did David signally, Psalms 34:6, "This poo...
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_And openeth their ears_ That is, causeth them to hear, and
understand, and do the will of God; hearing being often put for
obeying; _in oppression_ That is, in the time of their oppression; or,
_by o...
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He delivereth the poor in his affliction, in the case of such
suffering God makes the endurance itself serve as a means of
deliverance, He rewards such patience in misery, AND OPENETH THEIR
EARS IN OP...
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THE BENEVOLENT PURPOSES OF DIVINE JUSTICE...
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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....
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POOR:
Or, afflicted...
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On the other hand God delivers the afflicted to cry out to Him and
trust Him, instead of storing up anger against Him. Here is. warning.
Job has been storing up anger up against God. In time of oppres...
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15-23 Elihu shows that Job caused the continuance of his own trouble.
He cautions him not to persist in frowardness. Even good men need to
be kept to their duty by the fear of God's wrath; the wisest...
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i.e. Causeth them to hear, and understand, and do the will of God;
hearing being oft put _for obeying_. And this latter clause seems to
be added, to intimate that he will not deliver all afflicted per...
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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...
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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...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:1 Elihu concludes his lengthy speech.
⇐ ⇔...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:5 Elihu implies that Job’s situation is an
example of God using affliction to deliver the righteous from their
sin—if they are willing to accept his correction.
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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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_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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Chronicles 12:8; Job 36:10; Job 36:6...
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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
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Openeth — Causeth them to hear, and understand, and do, the will of
God....