Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 34:28
Cry of the poor — Their case is bad, who have the prayers and tears of the poor against them: for these will draw down vengeance sooner or later, on the heads of their oppressors.
Cry of the poor — Their case is bad, who have the prayers and tears of the poor against them: for these will draw down vengeance sooner or later, on the heads of their oppressors.
Verse Job 34:28. _SO THAT THEY CAUSE THE CRY OF THE POOR_] They were cruel and oppressive: the poor cried through their distresses, and against their oppressors; and God heard the cry of the poor. Not...
SO THAT THEY CAUSE THE CRY OF THE POOR TO COME UNTO HIM - - Their character is that of oppressors. They take away the rights of the poor; strip away their property without any just claims, and cause t...
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...
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...
_so that they cause the cry_ Rather, THUS HE CAUSETH THE CRY OF THE POOR TO COME BEFORE HIM; lit. _to cause_(or, causing) _to come_. The words sum up the general purpose (or, effect) of God's destruct...
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...
_BECAUSE THEY TURNED BACK FROM HIM, AND WOULD NOT CONSIDER ANY OF HIS WAYS:_ The grounds of their punishment in Job 34:26; Job 34:28 states in what respect they "considered not God's ways" - namely,...
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...
Job spoke about poor people who cried to God. Job thought that God would not help them (Job 24:10-12). Elihu did not agree. God heard those poor people. And God will act to help them at the time when...
לְ הָבִ֣יא עָ֭לָיו צַֽעֲקַת ־דָּ֑ל וְ צַעֲקַ֖
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...
So that they cause the cry of the poor to (x) come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted. (x) By their cruelty and extortion....
(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...
SO THAT THEY CAUSE THE CRY OF THE POOR TO COME TO HIM,.... To God; through their oppressions of the poor they are made to cry by reason of them, and who come to God with their cries, and tears, and su...
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted. Ver. 28. _So that they cause the cry of the poor, &c._] These they compel, by their oppressions, to w...
_Because they turned back from him_ From God, whom they or their progenitors had owned; and from his laws, which God had written on their minds, Romans 2:14; and from the practice of true religion, to...
PROOF OF THE DIVINE RIGHTEOUSNESS...
so that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto Him, in consequence of the oppression exerted upon them; AND HE HEARETH THE CRY OF THE AFFLICTED, which is brought to His notice because the persist...
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...
God is just in the sense that He cares what happens to the less fortunate and judges those who abuse the poor....
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...
SO THAT THEY CAUSE, Heb. _to bring_, &c., which is ambiguous, and may be read, either, 1. _That he_, i.e. God, _might bring_, &c. So this is a reason why God _smote them_, &c., as is said, JOB 34:26....
Job 34:28 cry H6818 poor H1800 come H935 (H8687) hears H8085 (H8799) cry H6818 afflicted H6041 they -...
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....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 34:26 Elihu suggests that Job has been struck FOR ALL TO SEE because he has TURNED ASIDE from following the Lord’s WAYS by mistreating the poor
_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'...
Exodus 2:23; Exodus 2:24; Exodus 22:23; Exodus 3:7; Exodus 3:9;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3