Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible
Job 36:1-4
Elihu has yet words to utter for God. By a wide survey he will establish the righteousness of his Maker. All that Elihu says is true and his knowledge perfect.
Elihu has yet words to utter for God. By a wide survey he will establish the righteousness of his Maker. All that Elihu says is true and his knowledge perfect.
CHAPTER XXXVI _Elihu vindicates God's justice, and his providential and_ _gracious dealings with men_, 1-9. _Promises of God to the obedient, and threatenings to the_ _disobedient; also promises t...
ELIHU ALSO PROCEEDED - Hebrew added - ויסף _vayâsaph_. Vulgate _“addens;”_ Septuagint, Ηροσθεὶς _Eerostheis_ - “adding, or proceeding.” The Hebrew commentators remark that this word is used because...
CHAPTER 36:1-21 _ 1. God's care over the godly (Job 36:1)_ 2. The purposes of affliction (Job 36:8) 3. Job to consider this (Job 36:19) Job 36
Introductory: Elihu desires Job to hear him still further. He has still more to say in God's behalf; and it is not trivial or commonplace, either in its object for he will ascribe right to his Maker;...
_ELIHU SETS FORTH THE JUSTICE OF GOD IN ALL HIS WAYS, AND EXTOLS THE GREATNESS OF HIS POWER AND PROVIDENCE._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 36:1. ELIHU ALSO PROCEEDED_— Elihu goes on to lay before Job t...
E. GODPERSON, PROMISE, PURPOSE, AND PEOPLE (Job 36:1-33) 1. God deals with men according to their deeds; the penitent he restores, others perish. (Job 36:1-16) TEXT 36:1-16 1 ELIHU ALSO PROCEEDED...
_ELIHU ALSO PROCEEDED, AND SAID,_ Elihu maintains that afflictions are to the godly disciplinary, in order to lead them to attain a higher moral worth, and that the reason for their continuance is not...
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-15. Elihu maintains the wisdom and impartial justice of the rule of God. His purpose is to discipline and improve men, even by their afflictions....
THE WORK BEGUN. THE LIBERALITY OF THE PEOPLE Cp. 1 Chronicles 29:6; Ezra 2:68; Nehemiah 7:70. 8-38. The construction of the Tabernacle: see...
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 36 ELIHU TEACHES ABOUT GOD...
Elihu was bold when he spoke these words. But we do not think that he was proud. Elihu was speaking by God’s Holy Spirit (Job 32:8). In other words, Elihu’s knowledge came from God (Job 36:22). Elihu...
XXXVI. (1) ELIHU ALSO PROCEEDED. — It is not easy to acquit Elihu of some of the “arrogance” he was so ready to ascribe to Job. He professes very great zeal for God, but it is hard to see that some o...
וַ יֹּ֥סֶף אֱלִיה֗וּא וַ יֹּאמַֽר׃...
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...
HE DESPISETH NOT ANY Job 36:1 God is mighty, but He does not despise thee, though thou be the least of saints. His eyes are upon thee for good, and He will set thee before His throne forever. He will...
After answering the arguments of Job, as expressed in the quotations, there would seem to have been a pause. Then Elihu commenced his last address. He first appealed to Job to hear him, as he was abou...
CONTENTS Elihu still prosecuteth his discourse. He gives a better and a more proper reason than Job's friends did, concerning the cause of affliction, and shows, that it is by such providences that t...
(1) В¶ Elihu also proceeded, and said, (2) Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf. (3) I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to...
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...
ELIHU ALSO PROCEEDED, AND SAID. Or "added" f what follows to his former discourses; pausing a while to see whether Job would make any reply to what he had already said; but perceiving he had no inclin...
Elihu also proceeded, and said, Ver. 1. _Elihu also proceeded and said_] Heb. And Elihu added, viz. this his fourth oration, not unlike the former, made in behalf and for defence of God's justice, wh...
_Elihu also proceeded_ Having reprehended some of the unwarrantable expressions in Job's discourses, Elihu comes closer to the business, and speaks to the very cause itself, showing, from the nature o...
THE BENEVOLENT PURPOSES OF DIVINE JUSTICE...
Elihu also proceeded, since Job continued to hold his peace, AND SAID,...
SPEAKING ON GOD'S BEHALF (vv.1-4) Elihu continues in the same strain, for as he says, there is much more to be said on God's behalf. Where did Elihu find his knowledge? He fetched it "from afar" (v....
"WAIT FOR ME. LITTLE": Again he pleads for continued patience with his words. "He was so full of ideas to share (Job 32:18-20) that he asked Job not to become impatient with. He still had more to say...
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...
JOB CHAPTER 36 God is first in all his ways; towards the wicked, JOB 36:1, the godly, JOB 36:7, the hypocrite, JOB 36:12, the poor, Job 36:15
Job 36:1 Elihu H453 proceeded H3254 (H8686) said H559 (H8799)...
Job 36:1 The sinner's excuses answered. I. One excuse is that the Bible cannot be true because it represents God as unjust. It represents God as creating men and then condemning them for another's si...
CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. God's justice defended. CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job. CONCLUSION: God does all things well. Though it may seem sometimes that we are neglected and forgotten and...
Job 36:3. _I will fetch my knowledge from afar;_ from the expanse of heaven, and from the remotest traditions of the sires. Natural theology is very instructive to man, to acquaint us with the perfect...
_Elihu also proceeded and said._ THE PORTRAIT OF A TRUE PREACHER I. The side he has to take. “I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.” Sin is a controversy with God. The true preacher has to take the s...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:1 Elihu concludes his lengthy speech. ⇐ ⇔...
_ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH_ No reply being made to Elihu’s preceding address, he resumes. Job 36:1.—“Elihu also proceded and said”. His object to bring Job to a more becoming state of mind in reference t...
EXPOSITION JOB 36:1 The two chapters, Job 36:1; Job 37:1, form a single discourse, and ought not to have been separated; or, at any rate, not so unskilfully as they are, in the middle of a descriptio...
Elihu continued (Job 36:1), He's really taking him on. Just allow me a little more, and I'm going to show you what I have to speak on God's behalf. I'm going to fetch my knowledge from far off, I'm g...
Job 36:1...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3