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Verse Job 36:26. _GOD_ IS _GREAT_] He is _omnipotent_.
_WE KNOW_ HIM _NOT_] He is _unsearchable_.
_NEITHER CAN THE NUMBER OF HIS YEARS BE SEARCHED OUT._] He is
_eternal_.
These three propositions...
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BEHOLD, GOD IS GREAT, AND WE KNOW HIM NOT - That is, we cannot fully
comprehend him; see the notes at Job 11:7.
NEITHER CAN THE NUMBER OF HIS YEARS BE SEARCHED OUT - That is, he is
eternal. The object...
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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 ...
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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....
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IS GREAT. See note on Job 36:5.
HIS YEARS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
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Job 36:26-33. The greatness and unsearchableness of God, seen in His
marvellous operations in the skies; and exhortation to Job to allow
these wonders duly to impress him, and to bow beneath the great...
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_we know him not_ He is so great as to transcend all knowledge of man.
The Eternity of God is referred to in the second clause in order to
fill the mind more completely with the sense of His greatness...
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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...
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_BEHOLD, GOD IS GREAT, AND WE KNOW HIM NOT, NEITHER CAN THE NUMBER OF
HIS YEARS BE SEARCHED OUT._
God's greatness in heaven and earth: a reason why Job should bow under
His afflicting hand.
KNOW HI...
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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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Soon, the men would have an experience of God’s greatness. They
would watch a powerful storm. Afterwards, God would speak.
A STORM APPROACHES
V27 God gathers the water to make the rain. V28 He cause...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
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CHAPTER 36
ELIHU TEACHES ABOUT GOD...
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הֶן ־אֵ֣ל שַׂ֭גִּיא וְ לֹ֣א נֵדָ֑ע
מִסְפַּ֖ר
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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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Behold, God [is] great, (r) and we know [him] not, neither can the
number of his years be searched out.
(r) Our infirmity hinders us so that we cannot attain the perfect
knowledge of God....
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(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...
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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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BEHOLD, GOD [IS] GREAT,.... In his power and might, in his wisdom and
knowledge, in his truth and faithfulness, in his love, grace, and
mercy, and that to admiration; and it is worthy of notice and
at...
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Behold, God [is] great, and we know [him] not, neither can the number
of his years be searched out.
Ver. 26. _Behold, God is great_] Yea, he is _maximus in minimis,_
greatest and most of all seen in...
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_Behold, God is great_ Infinite in majesty, and power, and wisdom, and
all perfections, and therefore just in all his ways; _and we know him
not_ Namely, perfectly. Though we see something of him in h...
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THE DIVINE JUSTICE AS SUPREME POWER AND WISDOM...
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Behold, God is great, exalted far above all human contemplation, AND
WE KNOW HIM NOT, cannot grasp His majesty, even in the works of His
creation, NEITHER CAN THE NUMBER OF HIS YEARS BE SEARCHED OUT,...
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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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"THE NUMBER OF HIS YEARS IS UNSEARCHABLE": How you ever tried to
mentally comprehend the fact that God never had. beginning?...
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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,...
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GOD IS GREAT; infinite in majesty, and power, and wisdom, and all
perfections, and therefore just in all his ways. We KNOW HIM NOT, to
wit, perfectly. Though we see something of him in his works, as w...
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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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_God is great, and we know Him not._
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
These words recall the supreme questions which divide hostile
philosophies. Even Christian apologists have maintained that God is
inaccessibl...
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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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1 Kings 8:27; 2 Peter 3:8; Hebrews 1:12; Job 11:7; Job 26:14;...
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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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Neither — He is eternal, as in his being, so in all his counsels;
which therefore must be infinitely above the comprehension of short
— lived men....