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 appeal to Him is that their cry is prompted by their selfishness. Both arguments are quite irrelevant to the case of Job.
Verse Job 35:16. _THEREFORE DOTH JOB OPEN HIS MOUTH IN VAIN_] God will execute vengeance when it may best serve the ends of his justice, providence, and mercy. The delay of judgment is not proof that...
THEREFORE - In view of all that Elihu had now said, be came to the conclusion that the views of Job were erroneous, and that he had no just cause of complaint. He had suffered no more than he had dese...
CHAPTER 35 _ 1. Remember the greatness of God (Job 35:1)_ 2. Why God is silent and does not answer (Job 35:9) Job 35:1. Job having kept silence Elihu continues and asks him if this is sound judgment...
Men cry out by reason of oppression, but do not inquire after God, who gives songs in the night and makes us wiser than the animals. They cry because of the pride of evil men, but God does not answer,...
The interpretation and connexion of these verses is difficult. Job 35:14 might carry on the idea of Job 35:13, 13. Surely God will not hear vanity, Neither will the Almighty regard it; 14. Much les...
4. Job has approached God in the wrong spirit. (Job 35:14-16) TEXT 35:14-16 14 HOW MUCH LESS WHEN THOU SAYEST THOU BEHOLDEST HIM NOT, The cause is before him, and thou waitest for him! 15 But now,...
_THEREFORE DOTH JOB OPEN HIS MOUTH IN VAIN; HE MULTIPLIETH WORDS WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE._ Apodosis to 15. IN VAIN - rashly. Remarks: (1) God can have no possible inducement to act with injustice in His...
Job too had been complaining about God. Job was not thanking God for his good gifts. Instead, Job was constantly arguing that he himself was innocent. He was constantly insisting that God should help...
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 35 ELIHU CONTINUES TO DISCU...
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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...
SONGS IN THE NIGHT Job 35:1 God is so exalted above man in His nature that He is altogether independent of him. When men sin against Him, they hurt not Him but themselves. There is no motive, therefo...
Turning to the second quotation, Elihu suggested that when Job questioned the advantage of serving God, he set up his righteousness as being "more than God's." He then laid bare the very foundations o...
Therefore doth Job (h) open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. (h) For if he punished you as you deserved, you would not be able to open your mouth....
_Knowledge. I have shewn that God punishes or rewards according to our deserts, and is not indifferent about our sins. If Job have not experienced the divine bounty, it is because he has not deserved...
(16) Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. REFLECTIONS MY soul, here is a new field opened for thy further improvement in this highly finished reasoning o...
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...
THEREFORE DOTH JOB OPEN HIS MOUTH IN VAIN,.... In uttering such unbecoming expressions, observed, and refuted, in his loud complaints of God, and of his dealings with him, and in defence of himself;...
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. Ver. 16. _Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain_] _Dilatat, divaricat, rictum diducit ut bellua._ An open mouth...
_But now, because it is not so_ That is, because Job doth not acknowledge God's justice and his own sins, and wait upon God in a proper way for mercy; _he hath visited in his anger_ God hath laid grie...
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain, to no purpose, without object; HE MULTIPLIETH WORDS WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE, in an altogether unintelligent and foolish manner. For this reason sufferers remain un...
The Reasons For God's Delay in Helping Suffering...
Elihu had spoken of God's testing Job (ch.34:36), and in this chapter provides what is true of God's test of mankind. It is clearly connected with chapter 34, but is distinct also, for chapter 34 deal...
14-26 As in prosperity we are ready to think our mountain will never be brought low; so when in adversity, we are ready to think our valley will never be filled up. But to conclude that to-morrow mus...
THEREFORE; hence it is manifest. OPEN HIS MOUTH IN VAIN, i.e. pour forth his complaints without any success, and gets no ease by them. HE MULTIPLIETH WORDS WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE, thereby discovering his i...
Job 35:16 Job H347 opens H6475 (H8799) mouth H6310 vain H1892 multiplies H3527 (H8686) words H4405 without...
CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. Job's rash talk reproved. CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job. CONCLUSION: It is vain to appeal to God to remove affliction, or to try to acquit ourselves, if we have...
Job 35:2. _My righteousness is more than God's._ The LXX react as the Hebrew, “Thou saidest, I am righteous before God.” Elihu makes too strong an inference from Job's words, when he said, Job 33:9, “...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 35:1 Elihu thinks Job believes that his righteousness entitles him to God’s blessing, but Elihu believes that neither faithfulness nor wickedness influences God (vv. Job 35:1). Job had...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 35:14 Elihu argues that, if God does not regard the cries of the proud oppressed (vv. Job 35:9), how can Job expect an answer (v....
_ELIHU’S THIRD SPEECH_ After a second pause, and no reply, Elihu again resumes. Renews his reproof of Job, and attempts to answer some of his cavils. Job 35:1.—“Elihu spake moreover,” &c. I. REPROVES...
EXPOSITION JOB 35:1 In this short chapter, once more Elihu addresses himself to Job, first (verses 1-8) answering his complaint that a life of righteousness has brought him no correspondent blessings...
Elihu continues to speak, he said, Do you think this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's? (Job 35:1-2) Now Job didn't actually say that, but he is taking Job's words and s...
Job 3:1; Job 33:2; Job 33:8; Job 34:35; Job 38:2...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3