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Verse Job 36:16. _EVEN SO WOULD HE HAVE REMOVED THEE_] If thou hadst
turned to, obeyed, and served him, thy present state would have been
widely different from what it is....
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EVEN SO WOULD HE HAVE REMOVED THEE - That is, if you had been patient
and resigned, and if you had gone to him with a broken heart. Having
stated the “principles” in regard to affliction which he held...
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CHAPTER 36:1-21
_ 1. God's care over the godly (Job 36:1)_
2. The purposes of affliction (Job 36:8)
3. Job to consider this (Job 36:19)
Job 36
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The godless cherish angry thoughts about God's discipline they refuse
to cry for God's help (Job 36:13). They die young, perishing like the
sodomites (those religiously consecrated to unnatural vice;...
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Elihu's doctrine is in a word: God is great and despiseth not, He is
great in strength of heart. His greatness is that of understanding,
which enables Him to estimate all rightly, to see through all r...
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The words _even so_connect Job's case with the general principles in
regard to suffering just inculcated by Elihu. The figures of
"straitness" and "broad place" are usual for affliction and
prosperity...
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Application to Job of the principles in regard to affliction just
enunciated by Elihu.
Job 36:16 are difficult and have been understood in a great variety of
ways. The general sense expressed by the...
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EVEN SO WOULD HE HAVE REMOVED THEE, &C.— _He would have also
screened thee from the edge of the broad sword, against which nothing
can make resistance; and the provision of thy table should have been...
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GODPERSON, PROMISE, PURPOSE, AND PEOPLE (Job 36:1-33)
1.
God deals with men according to their deeds; the penitent he restores,
others perish. (Job 36:1-16)
TEXT 36:1-16
1 ELIHU ALSO PROCEEDED...
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_EVEN SO WOULD HE HAVE REMOVED THEE OUT OF THE STRAIT INTO A BROAD
PLACE, WHERE THERE IS NO STRAITNESS; AND THAT WHICH SHOULD BE SET ON
THY TABLE SHOULD BE FULL OF FATNESS._
Literally, He would have l...
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36:16 fatness. (d-33) Some read 'thy table would be quiet and full of
fatness.'...
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THE WORK BEGUN. THE LIBERALITY OF THE PEOPLE
Cp. 1 Chronicles 29:6; Ezra 2:68; Nehemiah 7:70.
8-38. The construction of the Tabernacle: see...
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THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED)
1-15. Elihu maintains the wisdom and impartial justice of the rule of
God. His purpose is to discipline and improve men, even by their
afflictions....
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Job thought that he was merely waiting to die. But God had wonderful
plans for Job....
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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 36
ELIHU TEACHES ABOUT GOD...
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EVEN SO WOULD HE HAVE REMOVED THEE. It is possible to understand this
verse somewhat otherwise, and the sense may perhaps be improved. Elihu
may be speaking, not of what God would have done, but of wh...
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וְ אַ֤ף הֲסִיתְךָ֨ ׀ מִ פִּי ־צָ֗ר
רַ֭חַב
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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...
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HE DESPISETH NOT ANY
Job 36:1
God is mighty, but He does not despise thee, though thou be the least
of saints. His eyes are upon thee for good, and He will set thee
before His throne forever. He will...
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After answering the arguments of Job, as expressed in the quotations,
there would seem to have been a pause. Then Elihu commenced his last
address.
He first appealed to Job to hear him, as he was abou...
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Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad
place, where [there is] no straitness; and (l) that which should be
set on thy table [should be] full of fatness.
(l) If you had be...
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CHAPTER XXXVI.
He shall. He would have prevented thee from falling into this
irremediable distress, if thou hadst imitated the poor who trust in
Him. (Calmet) --- Yea, he will still restore thee to f...
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(4) For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in
knowledge is with thee. (5) В¶ Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth
not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom. (6) He preserveth not...
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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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Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad
place, where [there is] no straitness; and that which should be set on
thy table [should be] full of fatness.
Ver. 16. _Even so wou...
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_And openeth their ears_ That is, causeth them to hear, and
understand, and do the will of God; hearing being often put for
obeying; _in oppression_ That is, in the time of their oppression; or,
_by o...
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Even so would He have removed thee, Elihu here making the application
to the case of Job, OUT OF THE STRAIT INTO A BROAD PLACE, WHERE THERE
IS NO STRAITNESS, God would have lured and coaxed him out of...
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THE BENEVOLENT PURPOSES OF DIVINE JUSTICE...
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SPEAKING ON GOD'S BEHALF
(vv.1-4)
Elihu continues in the same strain, for as he says, there is much more
to be said on God's behalf. Where did Elihu find his knowledge? He
fetched it "from afar" (v....
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THAT WHICH SHOULD BE SET ON THY TABLE:
_ Heb._ the rest of thy table...
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God was seeking to free Job from distress, straits,. cramped
situation, and take him to. spacious place, that is,. place with no
obstructions....
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15-23 Elihu shows that Job caused the continuance of his own trouble.
He cautions him not to persist in frowardness. Even good men need to
be kept to their duty by the fear of God's wrath; the wisest...
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EVEN SO, if thou hadst opened thine ear to God's counsels, and humbled
thyself under his correcting hand, and sued to God for mercy, WOULD HE
HAVE REMOVED THEE; as this verb is used, 2 CHRONICLES 18:3...
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Job 36:16 brought H5496 (H8689) distress H6310 H6862 place H7338 where
H8478 restraint H4164 set H5183 table...
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CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. God's justice defended.
CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job.
CONCLUSION: God does all things well. Though it may seem sometimes
that we are neglected and forgotten and...
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Job 36:3. _I will fetch my knowledge from afar;_ from the expanse of
heaven, and from the remotest traditions of the sires. Natural
theology is very instructive to man, to acquaint us with the
perfect...
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_Out of the strait into a broad place._
AN INVITATION TO STRAITENED SOULS
What is literally straitness? The word “strait” means
“narrow.” The place between two mountains or two seas is a strait
or na...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:1 Elihu concludes his lengthy speech.
⇐ ⇔...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:5 Elihu implies that Job’s situation is an
example of God using affliction to deliver the righteous from their
sin—if they are willing to accept his correction.
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:16 Elihu suggests that Job should see his own
suffering as God seizing him in JUDGMENT and JUSTICE....
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_ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH_
No reply being made to Elihu’s preceding address, he resumes. Job
36:1.—“Elihu also proceded and said”. His object to bring Job to
a more becoming state of mind in reference t...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 36:1
The two chapters, Job 36:1; Job 37:1, form a single discourse, and
ought not to have been separated; or, at any rate, not so unskilfully
as they are, in the middle of a descriptio...
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Elihu continued (Job 36:1),
He's really taking him on.
Just allow me a little more, and I'm going to show you what I have to
speak on God's behalf. I'm going to fetch my knowledge from far off,
I'm g...
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Isaiah 25:6; Isaiah 55:2; Job 19:8; Job 42:10; Psalms 118:5;...
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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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He would — If thou hadst opened thine ear to God's counsels. Into
— A state of ease and freedom....