Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 36:10
Openeth — He inclines them to hearken to what God speaks by the rod.
Openeth — He inclines them to hearken to what God speaks by the rod.
Verse Job 36:10. _HE OPENETH ALSO THEIR EAR_] He gives them to _understand_ the reason why they are thus corrected, and commands them to _return_ from those iniquities which have induced him to visit...
HE OPENETH ALSO THEIR EAR TO DISCIPLINE - To teaching; or he makes them willing to learn the lessons which their afflictions are designed to teach; coral). See the notes at Job 33:16....
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
God is mighty, yet despises none. He destroys the wicked, but watches over the righteous, exalting them to honour. If He afflicts them it is to bring home to them their sin. Thus God instructs them an...
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'aven_. App-44. Not the same word as Job 36:23....
Elihu's doctrine is in a word: God is great and despiseth not, He is great in strength of heart. His greatness is that of understanding, which enables Him to estimate all rightly, to see through all r...
The meaning of afflictions they are a divine warning and stimulus to rouse men out of a sinful lethargy and bring their sin to their remembrance....
If life often appears to present a different picture and men are seen in affliction, this affliction is a discipline, needful to warn them and bring their evil before them....
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...
_AND IF THEY BE BOUND IN FETTERS, AND BE HOLDEN IN CORDS OF AFFLICTION;_ If they be afflicted, it is no proof that they are hypocrites, as the friends maintain; or that God disregards them, and is in...
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...
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....
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...
God is kind. He is even kind to people who are proud and evil. Elihu described a man whose attitudes were terrible. This man was both proud and evil. Job’s friends thought that God would kill such a...
וַ יִּ֣גֶל אָ֭זְנָם לַ † מּוּסָ֑ר וַ֝...
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...
_Ear, by secret inspirations, or by the admonition of pastors. (Calmet) --- Afflictions will also speak louder to them than any orator. (Haydock)_...
(4) For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee. (5) В¶ Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom. (6) He preserveth not...
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 OPENETH ALSO THEIR EAR TO DISCIPLINE,.... Or "to correction" o; to the rod of correction; to hear the voice of it and him that has appointed it; its reproving voice for sin, its directing voice to...
He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. Ver. 10. _He openeth also their ear to discipline_] See on Job 33:16 . _ And commandeth that they return from i...
_If they be bound in fetters_ If, through the vicissitude of worldly affairs, they are brought from their throne into a prison, as sometimes hath been done. _Then he showeth them their work_ Their evi...
He openeth also their ear to discipline, in admonishing them to lay aside their pride, AND COMMANDETH THAT THEY RETURN FROM INIQUITY, from the vanity of the various forms of transgression into which t...
THE BENEVOLENT PURPOSES OF DIVINE JUSTICE...
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....
Suffering and pain also have the ability to open. person's ears to instruction and getting back on the right path. "By hardships God can get. man's attention and bring him out of sin" _(p. 73)._ Compa...
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...
i.e. He enableth and inclineth them to hearken to what God speaks by the rod, who would not hear in the time of their prosperity; like them JEREMIAH 22:21. TO DISCIPLINE; or, _to instruction_, i.e. to...
Job 36:10 opens H1540 (H8799) ear H241 instruction H4148 commands H559 (H8799) turn H7725 (H8799) iniquity...
Job 36:10 Discipline is the art or system of learning generally any little things. It is very much the same as instruction or education. But because teaching or education is often a very hard thing, a...
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...
_He openeth their ear to discipline._ DISCIPLINE 1. Notice the discipline which God uses in His family. Many of us are froward children and need discipline. Job needed it, and had it; we are not told...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:1 Elihu concludes his lengthy speech. ⇐ ⇔...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:5 Elihu implies that Job’s situation is an example of God using affliction to deliver the righteous from their sin—if they are willing to accept his correction. ⇐
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:8 Elihu describes AFFLICTION as a kind of captivity. He argues that God uses affliction to speak to people about their sin (v. Job 36:9)....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:10 When Elihu says that God OPENS the EARS (also v. Job 36:15), he is continuing his point from an earlier speech (see...
_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...
Acts 16:14; Acts 17:30; Acts 3:19; Ezekiel 18:30; Ezekiel 18:31;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3