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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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_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...
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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....
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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 serv...
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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...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
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CHAPTER 35
ELIHU CONTINUES TO DISCU...
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וְ֭ אִיֹּוב הֶ֣בֶל יִפְצֶה ־פִּ֑יהוּ
בִּ בְלִ
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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(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...
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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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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;...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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The Reasons For God's Delay in Helping Suffering...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 35:16 Job H347 opens H6475 (H8799) mouth H6310 vain H1892
multiplies H3527 (H8686) words H4405 without...
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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...
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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, “...
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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Job 3:1; Job 33:2; Job 33:8; Job 34:35; Job 38:2...
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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