Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Job 34:22
They may flatter themselves, or cheat others, by covering their wicked actions with plausible pretences and professions; but they cannot deceive God, nor keep their hearts and ways from his sight.
They may flatter themselves, or cheat others, by covering their wicked actions with plausible pretences and professions; but they cannot deceive God, nor keep their hearts and ways from his sight.
Verse Job 34:22. THERE IS _NO DARKNESS_] In this life; and _no shadow of_ _death_ in the other world-no annihilation _in which the workers of_ _iniquity may hide themselves_, or take refuge....
THERE IS NO DARKNESS - No dark cavern which can furnish a place of concealment. The guilty usually take refuge in some obscure place where people cannot detect them. But Elihu says that man has no pow...
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...
DARKNESS. Hebrew. _hashak._ See note on Job 3:6....
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....
THERE IS NO DARKNESS, NOR SHADOW OF DEATH— i.e. "Not death itself shall conceal the workers of iniquity from the eye of God, or withdraw them from his justice: Men may flatter themselves with the hope...
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...
_THERE IS NO DARKNESS, NOR SHADOW OF DEATH, WHERE THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY MAY HIDE THEMSELVES._ Shadow of death - thick darkness (Amos 9:2. Psalms 139:12 Psalms 139:12)....
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...
We cannot hide from God (Psalms 139:11-12)....
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...
THERE IS NO DARKNESS. — As Job had perhaps seemed to imply in Job 24:13....
אֵֽין ־חֹ֖שֶׁךְ וְ אֵ֣ין צַלְמָ֑וֶת לְ הִסָּ֥
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...
_Death, or the most obscure recess. (Haydock)_...
(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...
[THERE IS] NO DARKNESS, NOR SHADOW OF DEATH, WHERE THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY MAY HIDE THEMSELVES. By whom may be meant chiefly profane sinners that are abandoned to a vicious course of life, and make a...
Job 34:22 [There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. Ver. 22. _There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, &c._] Sinners would fain shroud and secr...
_There is no darkness_, &c. The workers of iniquity may flatter themselves, or deceive others, by covering their wicked actions with plausible pretences and professions, but they cannot deceive God, n...
There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves, since the omniscient eye of God will penetrate to every hiding-place which men may devise or discover, Psalm...
PROOF OF THE DIVINE RIGHTEOUSNESS...
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...
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...
Job 34:22 darkness H2822 death H6757 workers H6466 (H8802) iniquity H205 hide H5641 (H8736) no -...
Job 34:22 The text marks a special circumstance in the character of "workers of iniquity," namely, that they are men who wish or will wish to hide themselves; that there is that in their dispositions...
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 Corinthians 4:5; Amos 9:2; Amos 9:3; Hebrews 4:13; Isaiah 29:15;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3