Job 35:1-16
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-8. Elihu (Job 34:9) had charged Job with saying that there was no advantage in being righteous. He now deals with this assertion.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-8. Elihu (Job 34:9) had charged Job with saying that there was no advantage in being righteous. He now deals with this assertion.... [ Continue Reading ]
RIGHT] RV '_thy_ right,' thy just cause.... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF_ _I he cleansed_ FROM MY SIN] RV 'more than if I had sinned.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THY COMPANIONS] those who held the same views. 5-8. Elihu points to the infinite distance between God and man, and shows that He cannot be injured by the evil or benefited by the good which we do. But a man's conduct is most important both to himself and to his fellows. 9-16. Coming to the problem... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY MAKE _the oppressed_ TO CRY] rather, 'men cry out.'... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO GIVETH SONGS IN THE NIGHT] i.e. who delivers in the night of trouble, and causes men to sing with joy.... [ Continue Reading ]
Render, 'They cry because of the pride of evil men, but none giveth answer'; i.e. because there is no humble, trustful appeal to God.... [ Continue Reading ]
VANITY] or, unreality.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALT] rather, 'dost.' Although Job thinks God is indifferent to his cause, it is not forgotten, only he must wait patiently.... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, neither doth he greatly regard arrogance'; i.e. because God does not seem to punish sin at once.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN VAIN] i.e. with foolish views. In this chapter Elihu follows Eliphaz in explaining that righteousness is profitable to the upright, since God is too exalted to have any interest of His own to serve in perversion of justice. He urges further that the reason for God's silence when the wretched app... [ Continue Reading ]