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Job 33:10
Behold, He findeth occasions, oppositions, hostilities, against me; He counteth me for His enemy.
Behold, He findeth occasions, oppositions, hostilities, against me; He counteth me for His enemy.
BEHOLD, HE FINDETH OCCASIONS AGAINST ME - That is, God. This is not exactly the language of Job, though much that he had said had seemed to imply this. The idea is, that God sought opportunity to oppo...
CHAPTER 33:8-33 _ 1. Elihu rebukes Job (Job 33:8)_ 2. How God deals with man (Job 33:14) 3. How God in grace recovers (Job 33:23) 4. Mark well, Job, hearken unto me ...
FINDETH. seeketh. Compare Numbers 14:35; Numbers 32:7. HE COUNTETH. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "that He may count"....
See ch. Job 10:13 _seq_., Job 13:24; Job 19:11; Job 30:21. _he findeth occasions_ lit. _enmities_, i. e. grounds of enmity or hostility; he "findeth" is alm
To Job's complaint that God shewed a hostility to him which was arbitrary and without cause Elihu replies that such a thing was unbecoming God and not to be thought of, for God is greater than man....
BEHOLD HE FINDETH OCCASIONS AGAINST ME— The first branch of this passage, _Behold he findeth occasions against me;_ or, as Heath and others render it, _He inventeth cruelties against me,_ is not to be...
He challenges Job's claim that he suffers because God counts him an enemy. (Job 33:8-12) TEXT 33:8-12 8 SURELY THOU HAS SPOKEN IN MY HEARING, And I have heard the voice of _thy_ WORDS, _saying,_ 9...
_BEHOLD, HE FINDETH OCCASIONS AGAINST ME, HE COUNTETH ME FOR HIS ENEMY,_ Occasions - for hostility: literally, enmities (Job 13:24; Job 16:9; Job 19:11; Job 3
33:10 he (a-2) i.e. God....
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-13. Elihu blames Job for regarding himself as sinless, and complaining that' God is his enemy and will not answer him....
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 33 ELIHU SPEAKS TO JOB V1...
Elihu did not repeat Job’s actual words. Instead, Elihu chose words that would emphasise Job’s main ideas. Job argued that he was innocent. And Job blamed God for Job’s troubles....
BEHOLD, HE FINDETH OCCASIONS AGAINST ME. — See Job 13:24; Job 13:26; Job 19:11....
הֵ֣ן תְּ֭נוּאֹות עָלַ֣י יִמְצָ֑א יַחְשְׁבֵ֖נִי לְ...
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...
THE INTERPRETER Job 33:1 It is not wonderful that Elihu has been mistaken for the Mediator Himself, so helpfully does he interpose between Job and his Maker. He dwells especially on his own likeness...
Elihu began his direct appeal to Job by asking his attention, assuring him of sincerity in motive, and finally declaring that he spoke to him as a comrade, not as a judge, or one who would fill him wi...
_Complaints. Something similar had indeed come from Job's lips; (chap. xiv. 17., and xx. 21.) not that he pretended that God sought to find him guilty without cause; but he meant that He treated him a...
(8) В¶ Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, (9) I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. (10) Behold, he f...
Elihu's Speeches I. INTRODUCTION A. In our last study of the book of Job (Chapter s 11-14), - Job had just replied to Zophar's speech. 1. Chapter 14 concludes the "first round" of speeches by Job's...
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...
BEHOLD, HE FINDETH OCCASIONS AGAINST ME,.... That is, sought in order to find them; so Job in some places suggests, that God inquired after his sins, and sought diligently after them, that he might ha...
Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, Ver. 10. _Behold, he findeth occasions against me_] Or, breaches; he picks quarrels with me, and would fain find out somewhat in...
_Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing_ I shall not charge thee with hypocrisy, as thy friends do, which God only can discern; but with those words which I myself have heard from thee; _I am clean wit...
HE SPEAKS AS A MEDIATOR (vv.1-7) Elihu did not take any haughty and unfeeling attitude as did Job's three friends, but speaks with simple humility, entreating Job to hear and consider what he says ...
He had also heard Job accuse God of being his enemy (Job 13:27; Job 7:17-20). Here he rehearses Job's complaints that God had been harassing him....
8-13 Elihu charges Job with reflecting upon the justice and goodness of God. When we hear any thing said to God's dishonour, we ought to bear our testimony against it. Job had represented God as seve...
He picketh quarrels with me, and _watcheth over_ and _searcheth after_ all my errors and frailties, as Job said, JOB 10:6, JOB 14:16,17; severely marking what is amiss in me, that thence he may take o...
Job 33:10 finds H4672 (H8799) occasions H8569 counts H2803 (H8799) enemy H341 (H8802) he findeth -...
This is part of the speech of young Elihu, who had listened with much patience, but also with great indignation, to the harsh speeches of Job's three friends and to Job's self-righteous answers. Job...
This is a speech of young Elihu, who had sat quietly listening to the taunting words of the three «candid friends» of Job, and to the somewhat exasperated replies of the patriarch. At last, the young...
CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. Affliction is shown to be discipline. CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job. CONCLUSION: God often afflicts the body in love and with gracious designs of good to the sou...
Job 33:4. _The Spirit of God hath made me._ See on Genesis 2:7, and Psalms 33:6. The creation of man was known to all the descendants of Noah, much the same as to Moses. Sanchoniatho the Phœnician his...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 33:1 Elihu opens and closes this section with a call for Job to listen to his words and answer if he is able (vv. Job 33:1,...
_ELIHU’S FIRST SPEECH_ Elihu addresses himself to Job on the subject of God’s afflictive dispensations. Afflictions often disciplinary chastisements. I. HE BESPEAKS JOB’S CAREFUL ATTENTION TO ALL TH...
EXPOSITION JOB 33:1 In this chapter Elihu, turning away from the "comforters," proceeds to address Job himself, offering to reason out the matter in dispute with him, in God's stead. After a brief e...
Wherefore, Job, [he said,] I pray thee, now hear my speech, hearken to all my words. Behold, I've opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth. My words shall be of uprightness of my heart: and m...
Job 10:15; Job 13:24; Job 13:25; Job 14:16; Job 16:9;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3