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Job 34:24
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, without a long inquiry into their past records, since He is familiar with their whole lives, and set others in their stead, Luke 1:52.
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, without a long inquiry into their past records, since He is familiar with their whole lives, and set others in their stead, Luke 1:52.
Verse Job 34:24. _HE SHALL BREAK IN PIECES_] In multitudes of cases God depresses the _proud_, and raises up the _humble_ and _meek_. Neither their _strength_ nor _number_ can afford them security....
HE SHALL BREAK IN PIECES - He crushes or destroys the great. He is not intimidated by their wealth, their rank, or their number. WITHOUT NUMBER - Margin, more correctly, “searching out.” That is, he d...
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...
_he shall break … without number_ Rather, HE BREAKETH … WITHOUT INQUISITION. The verse amplifies the conception of the preceding verse....
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...
This just rule of God operates unfailingly, being guided by infallible insight....
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...
_HE SHALL BREAK IN PIECES MIGHTY MEN WITHOUT NUMBER, AND SET OTHERS IN THEIR STEAD._ Break in pieces - (Psalms 2:9; Job 12:18; Daniel 2:21). WITHOUT NUMBER - rather, as margin, 'without searching ou...
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...
WITHOUT NUMBER] RM 'without inquisition.'...
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 Job’s country, a judge would select a day when he would act as judge. Everyone who needed the judge’s help would wait for that day. But on that day, they could go to his court. On that day, the jud...
WITHOUT NUMBER. — Rather, _in an unsearchable manner,_ as before, Job 34:20, “without hand,” _i.e.,_ without human means....
יָרֹ֣עַ כַּבִּירִ֣ים לֹא ־חֵ֑קֶר וַ יַּעֲמֵ֖ד...
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...
He shall break in pieces mighty men without (r) number, and set others in their stead. (r) For all his creatures are at hand to serve him, so that he needs not to seek for any other army....
_Stead. Where are not the ancient Assyrians, Carthaginians, &c., who once made such a figure in the world? (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "glorious and sudden, and unnumbered." The next eight verses are tak...
(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...
HE SHALL BREAK IN PIECES MIGHTY MEN WITHOUT NUMBER,.... Such as are mighty in bodily strength, as the giants of the old world, and such as were inhabitants of some parts of the land of Canaan; or migh...
He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead. Ver. 24. _He shall break in pieces mighty men, &c._] _Infinite conterit validos,_ so Tremellius rendereth it. He inf...
_He shall break in pieces mighty men_, &c. Neither their greatness nor their numbers can secure them from the stroke of God's justice; _and set others in their stead_ Give away their power and dignity...
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...
WITHOUT NUMBER: _ Heb._ without searching out...
Again, we have the idea that God can take down even the most powerful on this earth, and He will condemn. person, no matter who they are, if they are doing evil. God is fair. He does not overlook wick...
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...
MIGHTY MEN WITHOUT NUMBER; neither their greatness nor their numbers can secure them from the stroke of God's justice. SET OTHERS IN THEIR STEAD, i.e. give away their power and dignity to others who s...
Job 34:24 pieces H7489 (H8799) men H3524 inquiry H2714 sets H5975 (H8686) others H312 break -...
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...
_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 Kings 14:14; 1 Kings 14:7; 1 Kings 14:8; 1 Samuel 15:28; 1 Samu
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3