Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 36:15
Openeth — Causeth them to hear, and understand, and do, the will of God.
Openeth — Causeth them to hear, and understand, and do, the will of God.
Verse Job 36:15. _AND OPENETH THEIR EARS IN OPPRESSION._] He will let them know for what end they are afflicted, and _why_ he permits them to be oppressed. The word יגל _yigel_ might be translated _he...
HE DELIVERETH THE POOR IN HIS AFFLICTION - Margin, “or afflicted.” This accords better with the usual meaning of the Hebrew word (עני _‛__ânı̂y_) and with the connection. The inquiry was not particul...
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
The godless cherish angry thoughts about God's discipline they refuse to cry for God's help (Job 36:13). They die young, perishing like the sodomites (those religiously consecrated to unnatural vice;...
The verse goes back to the great general principle of the use of affliction in God's hand (Job 36:8 _seq_.), in order to connect with it the case of Job, and to found an exhortation to him upon it (Jo...
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...
HE DELIVERETH THE POOR IN HIS AFFLICTION— _Whilst,_ or, _but he delivereth,_ &c....
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...
_BUT THE HYPOCRITES IN HEART HEAP UP WRATH: THEY CRY NOT WHEN HE BINDETH THEM._ Same sentiment as Job 36:11 expanded. Verse 13. HYPOCRITES - or, the ungodly (Maurer); but "hypocrites" is perhaps a d...
RM 'He delivereth the afflicted by their afflictions, and openeth their ears by adversity.' Such are the effects of God's discipline when taken in the right spirit. 16-21. Elihu applies these remarks...
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....
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...
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 helps good people who suffer. He was teaching Job, even while Job was suffering. Job was learning about heaven (Job 19:25-27) and hell (Job 26:5-6). Job was learning about wisdom (chapter 28). Job...
HE DELIVERETH THE POOR IN HIS AFFLICTION. — The point of Elihu’s discourse is rather that He delivereth the afflicted by his affliction; He makes use of the very affliction to deliver him by it as a m...
יְחַלֵּ֣ץ עָנִ֣י בְ עָנְיֹ֑ו וְ יִ֖גֶל בַּ
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...
(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 DELIVERETH THE POOR IN HIS AFFLICTION,.... The righteous or godly poor; who are not only poor in worldly things, but poor in spirit; who are humbled, brought low, and made contrite, through the aff...
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. Ver. 15. _He delivereth the poor in his affliction_] Oft in this life, as he did David signally, Psalms 34:6, "This poo...
_And openeth their ears_ That is, causeth them to hear, and understand, and do the will of God; hearing being often put for obeying; _in oppression_ That is, in the time of their oppression; or, _by o...
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, in the case of such suffering God makes the endurance itself serve as a means of deliverance, He rewards such patience in misery, AND OPENETH THEIR EARS IN OP...
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....
POOR: Or, afflicted...
On the other hand God delivers the afflicted to cry out to Him and trust Him, instead of storing up anger against Him. Here is. warning. Job has been storing up anger up against God. In time of oppres...
15-23 Elihu shows that Job caused the continuance of his own trouble. He cautions him not to persist in frowardness. Even good men need to be kept to their duty by the fear of God's wrath; the wisest...
i.e. Causeth them to hear, and understand, and do the will of God; hearing being oft put _for obeying_. And this latter clause seems to be added, to intimate that he will not deliver all afflicted per...
Job 36:15 delivers H2502 (H8762) poor H6041 affliction H6040 opens H1540 (H8799) ears H241 oppression H3906...
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...
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)....
_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...
2 Chronicles 12:8; Job 36:10; Job 36:6...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3