In a moment shall they die, perish with the greatest suddenness, and the people shall be troubled at midnight and pass away, entire nations passing away, as a sleeper who is awakened at midnight only to meet a violent death; and the mighty shall be taken away without hand, without having the hand of men touching them, being destroyed by a higher invisible power, by the command of God.
Verse Job 34:20. _IN A MOMENT SHALL THEY DIE_] Both are equally dependent on the Almighty for their breath and being; the _mighty_ as well as the _poor_. If the _great men_ of the earth have abused t...
IN A MOMENT SHALL THEY DIE - That is, the rich and the great. They pass suddenly off the stage of action. They have no power to compel God to favor them, and they have no permanency of existence here...
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)...
Injustice is incompatible with rule. How does Job condemn God, before whom even kings and princes are vile, and who regards rich and poor alike? He sees the oppressor and suddenly destroys him. In Job...
WITHOUT HAND. Compare Daniel 2:34; Daniel 2:45; Daniel 8:25. and see 1 Samuel 26:11....
God's strict justice may be seen in His government of the peoples and their princes alike. His justice is unerring, for it is guided by omniscient insight. Punishing oppression, it avenges the cause o...
Display of God's just rule over people and princes. According to the punctuation the verse is thus divided, In a moment they die and at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty...
3. God is supreme, sees every hidden thing, and is an impartial judge. (Job 34:16-30) TEXT 34:16-30 16 If now _thou hast_ understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words. 17 Shall even...
_IN A MOMENT SHALL THEY DIE, AND THE PEOPLE SHALL BE TROUBLED AT MIDNIGHT, AND PASS AWAY: AND THE MIGHTY SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY WITHOUT HAND._ They - "the rich" and "princes" who offend God. THE PEOPL...
The impartiality of God's judgments. WITHOUT HAND] i.e. without human agency....
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...
The Bible teaches that God is the ruler of the world. • Pilate thought that he had power over Jesus. But Jesus replied that Pilate’s power came from God – John 19:10-11. • When King Nebuchadnezzar d...
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 34 ELIHU DISCUSSES THE SPEE...
IN A MOMENT SHALL THEY DIE — _i.e._, “they all alike die, rich and poor together; the hour of death is not hastened for the poor nor delayed for the rich. They all alike die.” EVEN AT MIDNIGHT THE PEO...
רֶ֤גַע ׀ יָמֻתוּ֮ וַ חֲצֹ֪ות לָ֥יְלָה יְגֹעֲשׁ֣וּ...
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 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...
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...
In a moment shall they die, (o) and the people shall be troubled at midnight, (p) and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand. (o) When they look not for it. (p) The messengers of...
_They, the wicked, whatever may be their station in life. (Haydock) --- God takes off the tyrant (Calmet) when he least expects it, as well as the poor. (Haydock) --- Troubled, or make an insurrection...
(13) Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? (14) If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; (15) All flesh shall peri...
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...
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...
IN A MOMENT SHALL THEY DIE,.... Princes as well as the common people, rich men as well as poor; all must and do die, great and small, high and low, kings and peasants, rich and poor men, and sometimes...
In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand. Ver. 20. _In a moment shall they die_] Be they mean or mighty...
Job 34:20. Remarkably fulfilled when the first-born were slain: as there are several things in this Book in which the Spirit that in the general directed in the forming of the speeches of Job and his...
_In a moment shall they die_ Whensoever God doth but give the word, and send his summons for them. The rich and the prince, no less than the poor, must submit to the law of death, which God hath impos...
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...
the mighty shall be taken: _ Heb._ they shall take away the mighty...
Even the mighty are not immune from God's justice. If they are wicked, often they are taken suddenly, when they least expect it. God is not influenced by man's power or money....
16-30 Elihu appeals directly to Job himself. Could he suppose that God was like those earthly princes, who hate right, who are unfit to rule, and prove the scourges of mankind? It is daring presumpti...
IN A MOMENT; whensoever God doth but give the word, and send his summons for them. SHALL THEY, i. e. the rich and the prince, no less than the poor, must submit to the law of death, which God hath imp...
Job 34:20 moment H7281 die H4191 (H8799) middle H2676 night H3915 people H5971 shaken H1607 (H8792) away...
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...
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....
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...
_And the mighty shall be taken away without hand._ GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY VIEWED IN RELATION TO THE DEATH OF HIS PEOPLE The text is part of the argument employed by Elihu to establish the principle of th...
_If now thou hast understanding, hear this._ ELIHU’S REMONSTRANCE I. Founded on the supremacy of God. Where there is absolute supremacy, there can be no injustice. There are some who speak of the ab...
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....
_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...
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...
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'...
1 Samuel 25:37; 1 Samuel 26:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Peter 2:3;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3