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Verse Job 34:31. _SURELY IT IS MEET TO BE SAID UNTO GOD_] This is
Elihu's exhortation to Job: _Humble thyself before God_, and say, "_I
have_ _suffered - I will not offend_....
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SURELY IT IS MEET TO BE SAID UNTO GOD - It is evident that this verse
commences a new strain of remark, and that it is designed particularly
to bring Job to proper reflections in view of what had occu...
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CHAPTER 34
_ 1. Hear my words ye wise men (Job 34:1)_
2. The refutation of Job's accusation of God (Job 34:5)
3. Job needs testing to the end (Job 34:31)...
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If God does not intervene, who can condemn Him, even if He set up the
wicked to rule? If only man penitently confesses his sin, is Job to
presume to fix his punishment? Wise men will say that Job has...
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The connexion of the following verses is rather uncertain. The sense
of Job 34:30 might suggest the connexion of Job 34:29 with the
preceding. In this case Job 34:31 would make a new start, and the
co...
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A supposition is put: Has any one said unto God? where _God_is
emphatic, the emphasis implying the unseemliness and presumption of
the act. The case is put generally, but the case is that of Job, as
J...
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Elihu gradually approaches the conduct of Job. He supposes the case of
one animadverting on the Divine procedure and complaining of unjust
affliction. This is presumption and implies that one usurps t...
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I HAVE BORNE CHASTISEMENT, &C.— _I lift up my hands; let me not be
utterly destroyed._ Heath. See Houb....
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4. Job is rebellious in multiplying wicked words against God. (Job
34:31-37)
TEXT 34:31-37
31 FOR HATH ANY SAID UNTO GOD,
I have borne _chastisement__,_ I WILL NOT OFFEND _ANY MORE:_
32 That which...
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_SURELY IT IS MEET TO BE SAID UNTO GOD, I HAVE BORNE CHASTISEMENT, I
WILL NOT OFFEND ANY MORE:_
Job accordingly says so (Job 40:3; Micah 7:9; Leviticus 26:41). It was
to lead him to this that Elihu wa...
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34:31 he (i-3) i.e. Job....
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Render, 'For hath any said unto God, I have borne _chastisement_
though I offend not?'...
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THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED)
1-9. Elihu appeals to his hearers to judge the matter. He protests
against the complaints of Job that he was treated unjustly by God, and
that it was no profit to be...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
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CHAPTER 34
ELIHU DISCUSSES THE SPEE...
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Job and his friends agreed that God should punish evil people. In
fact, God prefers to forgive people. However, God will not forgive
everyone, whatever their attitude may be. People must confess their...
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I HAVE BORNE CHASTISEMENT... — These verses express the attitude
that should be assumed towards God: one of submission and penitence....
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כִּֽי ־אֶל ־אֵ֭ל הֶ אָמַ֥ר נָשָׂ֗אתִי
לֹ֣א
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XXV.
POST-EXILIC WISDOM
Job 32:1; Job 33:1; Job 34:1
A PERSONAGE hitherto unnamed in the course of the drama now assumes
the place of critic and judge between Job and his friends. Elihu, son
of Bara...
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THE ALMIGHTY MUST BE JUST
Job 34:1
Elihu stands in Job 34:10 as God's apologist. God's absolute and
impartial justice is at all times a matter of untold comfort. There
will be no cause of ultimate co...
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Job gave no answer to the challenge, and Elihu proceeded. He first
appealed to the wise men, asked that they would listen in order to try
his words. He then made two quotations from the things Job had...
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_Seeing. Hebrew, "Thou shouldst have said to the Lord, I have suffered
enough: (Calmet) I will not offend." (Protestants) (Haydock) (Ver.
32.) --- Turn. He had undertaken to plead God's cause. (Calmet...
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(29) When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he
hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a
nation, or against a man only: (30) That the hypocrite reig...
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3. NOW ON TO CHAPTER 34
H. Job 34:1-9 (NKJV) Elihu further answered and said:
2 "Hear my words, you wise [men]; Give ear to me, you who have
knowledge.
3 For the ear tests words As the palate taste...
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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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SURELY IT IS MEET TO BE SAID UNTO GOD,.... By any afflicted person
under his chastising hand, and particularly by Job, for whom the
advice and instructions in this verse and Job 34:32 are designed:
I...
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Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I
will not offend [any more]:
Ver. 31. _Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne
chastisement_] To convince a man of a f...
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_Surely it is meet to be said unto God_ It is certainly but fit and
reasonable that man, a weak and sinful creature, should speak thus to
his Maker and supreme Lord, who is so much superior to him, an...
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Surely it is meet to be said unto God, or, "Is it that one indeed says
to God?" I HAVE BORNE CHASTISEMENT, I WILL NOT OFFEND ANY MORE,
expiating, bearing punishment without having done evil....
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JOB CHARGED WITH INCONSISTENCY...
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HIS APPEAL AS TO WISE MEN
(vv.1-4)
Since Job had wisely refrained from speaking, Elihu makes an appeal to
all his hearers, as to wise men (v.2). This reminds us of1 Corinthians
10:15, "I speak as to...
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Now Elihu focuses in on Job's situation. "Suppose. man, who has
'borne' chastisement, says to the Lord, 'Alright,. have done wrong..
won't do it again. Now, tell me exactly what you were punishing me...
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31-37 When we reprove for what is amiss, we must direct to what is
good. Job's friends would have had him own himself a wicked man. Let
will only oblige him to own that he spoke unadvisedly with his...
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Certainly it is but fit and reasonable that man should say thus to his
Maker and supreme Lord, and that instead of contending with God, he
should submit to him. Or, (which comes to the same thing,) _B...
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Job 34:31 said H559 (H8736) God H410 borne H5375 (H8804) offend H2254
(H8799)...
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Job 34:1. _Furthermore Elihu answered and said, Hear my words, O ye
wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. For the ear
trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat._
I wish that verse was...
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CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. He magnifies God's holiness.
CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: It is absurd and unreasonable to multiply words in
complaint against God's ways....
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Job 34:5. _Job hath said God hath taken away my judgment._ See on Job
27:2. Elihu, in every accusation, takes or turns Job's words in a
wrong sense. Job meant that God had varied, in regard of him, th...
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_Surely it is meet to be said unto God._
THE SECOND SPEECH OF ELIHU
I. A good counsel. Elihu recommends Job to do two things.
1. To resolve on an improved life. This includes--
(1) Moral reform....
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_I have borne chastisement._
THE NATURE AND NECESSITY OF HOLY RESOLUTION
There are two essential parts of a true repentance. A humble
acknowledgment and confession of our sins to God. A firm purpose...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 34:1 Elihu calls on “wise men” to hear Job’s
contention that he is in the right (vv. Job 34:2) and “men of
understanding” to hear Elihu’s argument against this claim (vv....
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_ELIHU’S SECOND SPEECH_
Probably after waiting for a reply from Job, and none being
forthcoming, Elihu resumes. Job 34:1.—“Furthermore Elihu answered
(took up speech), and said”. Job’s silence probabl...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 34:1
In this chapter Elihu turns from Job to those whom he addresses as
"wise men" (verse 2), or "men of understanding" (verse 10). Whether
these are Job's three special friends, or ot...
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Furthermore Elihu went on then [Job didn't answer], he said, Hear my
words, O ye wise men; give ear unto me, that have knowledge. For the
ear tries words, as the mouth tastes meat (Job 34:1-3).
That'...
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Daniel 9:7; Ezra 9:13; Ezra 9:14; Jeremiah 31:18; Jeremiah 31:19;...
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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