Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 34:4
Let us — Not contend for victory, but for truth and equity. Know — Let us shew one another who hath the best cause.
Let us — Not contend for victory, but for truth and equity. Know — Let us shew one another who hath the best cause.
Verse Job 34:4. _LET US CHOOSE TO US JUDGMENT_] Let us not seek the applause of men, nor contend for victory. Let our aim be to obtain correct views and notions of all things; and let us labour to fin...
LET US CHOOSE TO US JUDGMENT - That is, let us examine and explore what is true and right. Amidst the conflicting opinions, and the sentiments which have been advanced, let us find out what will abide...
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...
Elihu invites the wise among those who listen to him to attend to what he further says, and to unite with him in seeking to discover the right in this cause between Job and God....
The word _judgment_means _right_, or, _the right_, the just decision in the cause under consideration, Job's plea with God....
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...
_LET US CHOOSE TO US JUDGMENT: LET US KNOW AMONG OURSELVES WHAT IS GOOD._ Judgment - what is right and just. Let us select, among the conflicting sentiments advanced, what will stand the test of exam...
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...
JUDGMENT] RV 'that which is right.'...
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 heard the other men’s arguments. They all insisted that they were wise. If they really were wise, then they should be ready to listen to other people’s opinions. When they had heard Elihu’s opin...
מִשְׁפָּ֥ט נִבְחֲרָה ־לָּ֑נוּ נֵדְעָ֖ה בֵינֵ֣ינוּ מַה...
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...
Let us choose to us (b) judgment: let us know among ourselves what [is] good. (b) Let us examine the matter uprightly....
(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...
LET US CHOOSE TO US JUDGMENTS,.... Take the part of the question or controversy in which truth and justice lie, and he doubtless has respect to the present controversy with Job; LET US KNOW AMONG OUR...
Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what [is] good. Ver. 4. _Let us choose to us judgment_] Let us summon the sobriety of our senses before our judgments; laying aside all preju...
_Hear my words O ye wise men_ Who are here present: do you judge whether what I have said, and have still further to say, be not reasonable and true. _For the ear trieth words_ Man's mind judgeth of t...
JOB ACCUSED OF FALSEHOOD AND BLASPHEMY...
Let us choose to us judgment, proving, testing, what was right in the controversy between God and Job; LET US KNOW AMONG OURSELVES WHAT IS GOOD, reaching a common conclusion concerning their Verdict i...
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...
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...
JUDGMENT, i.e. justice and equity; judgment being oft synecdochically used for just judgment, as JOB 8:3, JOB 19:7 32:9 PSALMS 37:28. Let us not contend for victory, but only for truth and justice. Th...
Job 34:4 choose H977 (H8799) justice H4941 know H3045 (H8799) good H2896 choose - Job 34:36;...
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...
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 6:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:21; Galatians 2:11; Isaiah 11:2;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3