Job 33:1-33
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-13. Elihu blames Job for regarding himself as sinless, and complaining that' God is his enemy and will not answer him.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-13. Elihu blames Job for regarding himself as sinless, and complaining that' God is his enemy and will not answer him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Elihu feels that God is inspiring his mind to speak aright.... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'Behold, I am toward God even as thou art.' Job need have no fear in facing a man like himself, such as he had felt about God: cp. Job 9:32; Job 13:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Job 9:21; RV Job 10:7; Job 16:17; Job 27:4. But Elihu exaggerates Job's protestation of innocence: cp. Job 7:21; Job 13:26. 10, 11. Cp. Job 13:24; Job 13:27; Job 19:11; Job 30:21. 1 [ Continue Reading ]
FOR] i.e. 'because.' Why does Job complain because God does not explain His treatment of him? God does answer man, as he proceeds to point out in two ways. 14-30. Elihu especially insists that the purposes of God's visitations are often to teach and to discipline; Job 15-18 represent one method of... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. the vision of Eliphaz in Job 4.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEALETH] Impresses on the mind like a seal.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE KEEPETH BACK] RM 'That he may keep back.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DESTROYERS] or, 'the slain.' 23, 24. An angel messenger, interpreting God's will, comes to the sufferer and shows him what right conduct is. Thereupon God declares that He has found a means of reconciliation (RANSOM), perhaps the man's repentance, and pardons him. Some regard the angel as a med... [ Continue Reading ]
HE WILL RENDER, etc.] God restores to the penitent his righteousness, i.e. a position of acceptance with Him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Render, 'He (the penitent) singeth before men and saith, I have sinned and.. it was not requited to me.' 29, 30. Elihu has now shown Job the loving purposes of God in chastening man. Job himself had only advanced to the idea of his own vindication after death. Elihu teaches the use of evil in this... [ Continue Reading ]
I DESIRE TO JUSTIFY THEE] I am ready to admit you are right if you can prove it.... [ Continue Reading ]