_ELIHU IS ANGRY WITH JOB AND HIS THREE FRIENDS; WITH THE ONE FOR JUSTIFYING HIMSELF; WITH THE OTHERS FOR NOT ANSWERING SATISFACTORILY. HE APOLOGISES FOR HIS YOUTH AND ZEAL TO SPEAK._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 32:1. BECAUSE HE WAS RIGHTEOUS,_ &C.— _Wherefore he was righteous._ Job had given in hi... [ Continue Reading ]
ELIHU, THE SON OF BARACHEL, &C.— Elihu, a new personage, here makes his appearance. Attentive all the time to the debate between Job and his friends, he utters not a word till both sides have done speaking; and then shews, that a stander-by, though of less abilities and penetration, may sometimes se... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE THEY HAD FOUND NO ANSWER, &C.— Because _they had found no answer whereby they might convict Job._... [ Continue Reading ]
GREAT MEN— רבים _rabbim, teachers._ Heath and Houb.... [ Continue Reading ]
LEST YE SHOULD SAY— _Say ye not, therefore, we have found out wisdom? It is God must confute him, and not man._ "God only can sift him to the bottom, and know whether his pretences to piety have any thing real in them, or are only hypocritical.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR I AM FULL OF MATTER; THE SPIRIT, &C.— As he was a young man, he dares not claim much authority, from his own sayings; but he claims it from the inspiration of the Almighty, by whose Spirit he was actuated, and whose oracles he was delivering. Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT IS READY TO BURST LIKE NEW BOTTLES— _Bottles of new wine._ The epithet _new_ belongs more properly to the _wine,_ as it is in the LXX; in our Saviour's parabolical expression of, _putting new wine into old bottles;_ and as it is more consistent with the nature of things; for, the bottles being ma... [ Continue Reading ]
LET ME NOT, I PRAY YOU— Elihu's apology for himself is, that he would not presume to interpose in the debate till they who were his elders had done speaking: _I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom,_ Job 32:7. But however, as God had given to every one their share of u... [ Continue Reading ]