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Verse Job 34:7. _DRINKETH UP SCORNING LIKE WATER?_] This is a
repetition of the charge made against Job by _Eliphaz_, Job 15:16. It
is a proverbial expression, and seems to be formed, as a metaphor,...
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WHAT MAN IS LIKE JOB, WHO DRINKETH UP SCORNING LIKE WATER? - A similar
image occurs in Job 15:16. The idea is, that he was full of
reproachful speeches respecting God; of the language of irreverence
a...
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CHAPTER 34
_ 1. Hear my words ye wise men (Job 34:1)_
2. The refutation of Job's accusation of God (Job 34:5)
3. Job needs testing to the end (Job 34:31)...
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Elihu summons the wise men who hear him to seek a right decision. Job
has accused God of injustice, when he is innocent. But in reality Job
is the worst of scorners, for he denies the profit of religi...
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Elihu recites Job's statement of his cause against God, expressing his
abhorrence of Job's sentiments....
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Elihu cannot restrain his abhorrence of Job's sentiments. By
_scorning_is meant impiety and scepticism. On the figure comp. ch. Job
15:16....
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C.
THE SOURCE OF JUSTICE (Job 34:1-37)
1.
Job is walking with wicked men when he attributes injustice to God.
(Job 34:1-9)
TEXT 34:1-9
1 MOREOVER ELIHU ANSWERED AND SAID,
2 Hear my words, ye wis...
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_WHAT MAN IS LIKE JOB, WHO DRINKETH UP SCORNING LIKE WATER?_
(Job 15:16.) Image from the camel.
SCORNING - against God (Job 15:4)....
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THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED)
1-9. Elihu appeals to his hearers to judge the matter. He protests
against the complaints of Job that he was treated unjustly by God, and
that it was no profit to be...
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Elihu was saying that Job’s words sounded like the words of a wicked
man. Elihu was not saying that Job was evil. But evil men do say
things like those that we read in verses 5-6. Job seemed to copy a...
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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 34
ELIHU DISCUSSES THE SPEE...
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WHO DRINKETH UP SCORNING? — The same word had been applied to Job by
Zophar (Job 11:3), “And when thou _mockest,_ shall no man make thee
ashamed?” and the same reproach by Eliphaz (Job 15:16)....
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מִי ־גֶ֥בֶר כְּ אִיֹּ֑וב יִֽשְׁתֶּה
־לַּ֥עַג...
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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...
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THE ALMIGHTY MUST BE JUST
Job 34:1
Elihu stands in Job 34:10 as God's apologist. God's absolute and
impartial justice is at all times a matter of untold comfort. There
will be no cause of ultimate co...
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Job gave no answer to the challenge, and Elihu proceeded. He first
appealed to the wise men, asked that they would listen in order to try
his words. He then made two quotations from the things Job had...
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What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up (f) scorning like water?
(f) Which is compelled to receive your reproach and scorns of many for
his foolish words....
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_What. This may be a continuation of Job's speech, who seemed to
assert that none had ever been insulted like himself, nor borne it
with greater patience; (chap. xvi. 4.) or Eliu reproaches him with
t...
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(1) В¶ Furthermore Elihu answered and said, (2) Hear my words, O ye
wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. (3) For the
ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. (4) Let us choose t...
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3. NOW ON TO CHAPTER 34
H. Job 34:1-9 (NKJV) Elihu further answered and said:
2 "Hear my words, you wise [men]; Give ear to me, you who have
knowledge.
3 For the ear tests words As the palate taste...
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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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WHAT MAN [IS] LIKE JOB,.... This is said as wondering at the part he
acted, that a man so wise and good as Job was esteemed to be should
behave in such a manner as he did;
[WHO] DRINKETH UP SCORNING...
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What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water?
Ver. 7. _What man is like Job?_] This Elihu speaketh by way of angry
admiration, as if he would make Job a very nonsuch, a matchless
off...
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_Who drinketh up scorning like water_ That is, abundantly and
greedily: who doth so break forth into scornful expressions, not only
against his friends, but, in some sort, even against God himself. Th...
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What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? For in his
suspecting the divine justice Job was filling himself with scornful
speeches and then uttering them in a blasphemous manner....
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JOB ACCUSED OF FALSEHOOD AND BLASPHEMY...
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HIS APPEAL AS TO WISE MEN
(vv.1-4)
Since Job had wisely refrained from speaking, Elihu makes an appeal to
all his hearers, as to wise men (v.2). This reminds us of1 Corinthians
10:15, "I speak as to...
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"WHO DRINKS UP DERISION LIKE WATER": "Elihu is petrified by such an
accusation. He says that Job scorns God like drinking up water" _(p.
71)._ Eliphaz had basically made the same accusation (Job 15:16...
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1-9 Elihu calls upon those present to decide with him upon Job's
words. The plainest Christian, whose mind is enlightened, whose heart
is sanctified by the Spirit of God, and who is versed in the
Scr...
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i.e. Abundantly and greedily; who doth so oft and so easily break
forth into scornful and contemptuous expressions, not only against his
friends, but in some sort even against God himself, whom he foo...
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Job 34:7 man H1397 Job H347 drinks H8354 (H8799) scorn H3933 water
H4325
Job 15:16;...
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Job 34:1. _Furthermore Elihu answered and said, Hear my words, O ye
wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. For the ear
trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat._
I wish that verse was...
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CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. He magnifies God's holiness.
CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: It is absurd and unreasonable to multiply words in
complaint against God's ways....
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Job 34:5. _Job hath said God hath taken away my judgment._ See on Job
27:2. Elihu, in every accusation, takes or turns Job's words in a
wrong sense. Job meant that God had varied, in regard of him, th...
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_What man is like Job?_
ELIHU’S ESTIMATE OF JOB
It was natural that, with all his reverence for Job, Elihu should be
offended by the heat and passion of his words, by the absence of
moderation and se...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 34:1 Elihu calls on “wise men” to hear Job’s
contention that he is in the right (vv. Job 34:2) and “men of
understanding” to hear Elihu’s argument against this claim (vv....
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_ELIHU’S SECOND SPEECH_
Probably after waiting for a reply from Job, and none being
forthcoming, Elihu resumes. Job 34:1.—“Furthermore Elihu answered
(took up speech), and said”. Job’s silence probabl...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 34:1
In this chapter Elihu turns from Job to those whom he addresses as
"wise men" (verse 2), or "men of understanding" (verse 10). Whether
these are Job's three special friends, or ot...
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Furthermore Elihu went on then [Job didn't answer], he said, Hear my
words, O ye wise men; give ear unto me, that have knowledge. For the
ear tries words, as the mouth tastes meat (Job 34:1-3).
That'...
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Deuteronomy 29:19; Job 15:16; Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 4:17...
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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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Like water — Abundantly and greedily: who doth so break forth into
scornful expressions, not only against his friends, but in some sort
against God himself....