Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? For in his suspecting the divine justice Job was filling himself with scornful speeches and then uttering them in a blasphemous manner.
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? For in his suspecting the divine justice Job was filling himself with scornful speeches and then uttering them in a blasphemous manner.
Verse Job 34:7. _DRINKETH UP SCORNING LIKE WATER?_] This is a repetition of the charge made against Job by _Eliphaz_, Job 15:16. It is a proverbial expression, and seems to be formed, as a metaphor,...
WHAT MAN IS LIKE JOB, WHO DRINKETH UP SCORNING LIKE WATER? - A similar image occurs in Job 15:16. The idea is, that he was full of reproachful speeches respecting God; of the language of irreverence a...
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)...
Elihu summons the wise men who hear him to seek a right decision. Job has accused God of injustice, when he is innocent. But in reality Job is the worst of scorners, for he denies the profit of religi...
MAN. strong man. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14....
Elihu recites Job's statement of his cause against God, expressing his abhorrence of Job's sentiments....
Elihu cannot restrain his abhorrence of Job's sentiments. By _scorning_is meant impiety and scepticism. On the figure comp. ch. Job 15:16....
C. THE SOURCE OF JUSTICE (Job 34:1-37) 1. Job is walking with wicked men when he attributes injustice to God. (Job 34:1-9) TEXT 34:1-9 1 MOREOVER ELIHU ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 Hear my words, ye wis...
_WHAT MAN IS LIKE JOB, WHO DRINKETH UP SCORNING LIKE WATER?_ (Job 15:16.) Image from the camel. SCORNING - against God (Job 15:4)....
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...
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...
Elihu was saying that Job’s words sounded like the words of a wicked man. Elihu was not saying that Job was evil. But evil men do say things like those that we read in verses 5-6. Job seemed to copy a...
WHO DRINKETH UP SCORNING? — The same word had been applied to Job by Zophar (Job 11:3), “And when thou _mockest,_ shall no man make thee ashamed?” and the same reproach by Eliphaz (Job 15:16)....
מִי ־גֶ֥בֶר כְּ אִיֹּ֑וב יִֽשְׁתֶּה ־לַּ֥עַג...
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...
What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up (f) scorning like water? (f) Which is compelled to receive your reproach and scorns of many for his foolish words....
_What. This may be a continuation of Job's speech, who seemed to assert that none had ever been insulted like himself, nor borne it with greater patience; (chap. xvi. 4.) or Eliu reproaches him with t...
(1) В¶ Furthermore Elihu answered and said, (2) Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. (3) For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. (4) Let us choose t...
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...
WHAT MAN [IS] LIKE JOB,.... This is said as wondering at the part he acted, that a man so wise and good as Job was esteemed to be should behave in such a manner as he did; [WHO] DRINKETH UP SCORNING...
What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water? Ver. 7. _What man is like Job?_] This Elihu speaketh by way of angry admiration, as if he would make Job a very nonsuch, a matchless off...
_Who drinketh up scorning like water_ That is, abundantly and greedily: who doth so break forth into scornful expressions, not only against his friends, but, in some sort, even against God himself. Th...
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...
"WHO DRINKS UP DERISION LIKE WATER": "Elihu is petrified by such an accusation. He says that Job scorns God like drinking up water" _(p. 71)._ Eliphaz had basically made the same accusation (Job 15:16...
1-9 Elihu calls upon those present to decide with him upon Job's words. The plainest Christian, whose mind is enlightened, whose heart is sanctified by the Spirit of God, and who is versed in the Scr...
i.e. Abundantly and greedily; who doth so oft and so easily break forth into scornful and contemptuous expressions, not only against his friends, but in some sort even against God himself, whom he foo...
Job 34:7 man H1397 Job H347 drinks H8354 (H8799) scorn H3933 water H4325 Job 15:16;...
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...
_What man is like Job?_ ELIHU’S ESTIMATE OF JOB It was natural that, with all his reverence for Job, Elihu should be offended by the heat and passion of his words, by the absence of moderation and se...
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'...
Deuteronomy 29:19; Job 15:16; Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 4:17...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
Like water — Abundantly and greedily: who doth so break forth into scornful expressions, not only against his friends, but in some sort against God himself....