Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 33:18
Keepeth — By his gracious admonitions whereby he leads him to repentance.
Keepeth — By his gracious admonitions whereby he leads him to repentance.
Verse Job 33:18. _HE KEEPETH BACK HIS SOUL FROM THE PIT_] By the above means, how many have been snatched from an untimely death! By taking the warning thus given, some have been prevented from peris...
HE KEEPETH BACK HIS SOUL FROM THE PIT - The word soul in the Hebrew is often equivalent to self, and the idea is, that he keeps the man from the pit in this manner. The object of these warnings is to...
CHAPTER 33:8-33 _ 1. Elihu rebukes Job (Job 33:8)_ 2. How God deals with man (Job 33:14) 3. How God in grace recovers (Job 33:23) 4. Mark well, Job, hearken unto me ...
God answers man in two ways. One is by visions of the night, to withhold him from destruction. In Job 33:14 read God speaketh in one way, yea in two if man regardeth it not. With the vision of the nig...
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. PIT. Hebrew. _shachath =_ the grave, as dugout of the earth....
When Elihu gives the general answer to Job's charges against God that "God is greater than man" he means that the moral loftiness of God's nature made it impossible that He should act in the arbitrary...
To Job's charge Elihu replies that God speaks to man in many ways, as in dreams and visions of the night, by which He instructs men and seeks to turn them away from doing evil that would destroy them....
The object of this intervention of God is the gracious one of anticipating the sinner in the evil which he meditates and hindering it, and withdrawing him from his sinful purpose, Job 33:17; and the e...
FOR GOD SPEAKETH ONCE, &C.— _When God hath spoken once, verily he will not repeat it._ Houb. Elihu, blaming Job for some intemperate expressions that he had used, and for the manner of his offence, wh...
3. God has answered Job in two waysto discipline him. (Job 33:13-22) a. In dreams, to draw him from the fate of an evil course (Job 33:13-18) TEXT 33:13-18 13 Why dost thou strive against him, Fo...
_HE KEEPETH BACK HIS SOUL FROM THE PIT, AND HIS LIFE FROM PERISHING BY THE SWORD._ His soul - his life. THE PIT - the grave; a symbol of hell. PERISHING BY THE SWORD - i:e., a violent death; in t...
33:18 sword. (f-17) Or 'dart.'...
HE KEEPETH BACK] RM 'That he may keep back.'...
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-13. Elihu blames Job for regarding himself as sinless, and complaining that' God is his enemy and will not answer him....
This dream is like Eliphaz’s dream (Job 4:12-21). But there are important differences: • In Elihu’s story, God spoke by the dream. In Eliphaz’s dream, a strange spirit spoke. • In Elihu’s story, the...
‘God speaks in many different ways. But we do not always hear him’ (verse 14). Elihu used two stories to explain this idea. The first story is in verses 15-18. This sounds like Eliphaz’s strange dream...
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 33 ELIHU SPEAKS TO JOB V1...
יַחְשֹׂ֣ךְ נַ֭פְשֹׁו מִנִּי ־שָׁ֑חַת וְ֝ חַיָּתֹ֗ו...
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 INTERPRETER Job 33:1 It is not wonderful that Elihu has been mistaken for the Mediator Himself, so helpfully does he interpose between Job and his Maker. He dwells especially on his own likeness...
Elihu began his direct appeal to Job by asking his attention, assuring him of sincerity in motive, and finally declaring that he spoke to him as a comrade, not as a judge, or one who would fill him wi...
(18) He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. (19) В¶ He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: (20) So that...
Elihu's Speeches I. INTRODUCTION A. In our last study of the book of Job (Chapter s 11-14), - Job had just replied to Zophar's speech. 1. Chapter 14 concludes the "first round" of speeches by Job's...
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 KEEPETH BACK HIS SOUL FROM THE PIT,.... Or, "that he may keep back" n; for this is another end and use of God's speaking unto men; it is to preserve them for the present from going down to the grav...
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. Ver. 18. _He keepeth back his soul from the pit_] Or, That he may keep back his soul, that is, his body, as Psa 16:10...
_He keepeth back his soul from the pit_ By these gracious admonitions, whereby God leads men to humiliation of soul before him, and to repentance, he preserves their lives from death and the grave, an...
OF THE TRUE RELATION OF SINFUL MAN TOWARD GOD...
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, preserving men from death in their sins, AND HIS LIFE FROM PERISHING BY THE SWORD, by any weapon which brings destruction. That is one way in which God warns men...
HE SPEAKS AS A MEDIATOR (vv.1-7) Elihu did not take any haughty and unfeeling attitude as did Job's three friends, but speaks with simple humility, entreating Job to hear and consider what he says ...
FROM PERISHING BY THE SWORD: _ Heb._ from passing by the sword...
14-18 God speaks to us by conscience, by providences, and by ministers; of all these Elihu discourses. There was not then, that we know of, any Divine revelation in writing, though now it is our prin...
HE KEEPETH BACK, to wit, by these gracious admonitions, whereby he leads them to repentance, HIS SOUL; either the man, who is oft expressed by this part; or HIS LIFE, as the next branch explains it. F...
Job 33:18 back H2820 (H8799) soul H5315 Pit H7845 life H2416 perishing H5674 (H8800) sword H7973 keepeth
This is part of the speech of young Elihu, who had listened with much patience, but also with great indignation, to the harsh speeches of Job's three friends and to Job's self-righteous answers. Job...
This is a speech of young Elihu, who had sat quietly listening to the taunting words of the three «candid friends» of Job, and to the somewhat exasperated replies of the patriarch. At last, the young...
CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. Affliction is shown to be discipline. CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job. CONCLUSION: God often afflicts the body in love and with gracious designs of good to the sou...
Job 33:4. _The Spirit of God hath made me._ See on Genesis 2:7, and Psalms 33:6. The creation of man was known to all the descendants of Noah, much the same as to Moses. Sanchoniatho the Phœnician his...
_In a dream._ A HARD CASE How persevering is Divine love. God has voices which He uses in such a way that men must and shall hear. I. So, then, first, let us begin with what is a very humbling consi...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 33:1 Elihu opens and closes this section with a call for Job to listen to his words and answer if he is able (vv. Job 33:1,...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 33:18 Elihu repeatedly states that the purpose of God’s speaking to a person is to keep HIS SOUL FROM THE PIT (also vv. Job 33:22,...
_ELIHU’S FIRST SPEECH_ Elihu addresses himself to Job on the subject of God’s afflictive dispensations. Afflictions often disciplinary chastisements. I. HE BESPEAKS JOB’S CAREFUL ATTENTION TO ALL TH...
EXPOSITION JOB 33:1 In this chapter Elihu, turning away from the "comforters," proceeds to address Job himself, offering to reason out the matter in dispute with him, in God's stead. After a brief e...
Wherefore, Job, [he said,] I pray thee, now hear my speech, hearken to all my words. Behold, I've opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth. My words shall be of uprightness of my heart: and m...
2 Peter 3:15; 2 Peter 3:9; Acts 16:27; Romans 2:4...
GOD'S METHOD OF GRACE Job 33:18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In our Scripture today Elihu is addressing Job, and his three supposed friends. Elihu had listened to the speeches of Bildad, Zophar, and Eliphaz....
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3