Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 36:16
He would — If thou hadst opened thine ear to God's counsels. Into — A state of ease and freedom.
He would — If thou hadst opened thine ear to God's counsels. Into — A state of ease and freedom.
Verse Job 36:16. _EVEN SO WOULD HE HAVE REMOVED THEE_] If thou hadst turned to, obeyed, and served him, thy present state would have been widely different from what it is....
EVEN SO WOULD HE HAVE REMOVED THEE - That is, if you had been patient and resigned, and if you had gone to him with a broken heart. Having stated the “principles” in regard to affliction which he held...
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;...
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 words _even so_connect Job's case with the general principles in regard to suffering just inculcated by Elihu. The figures of "straitness" and "broad place" are usual for affliction and prosperity...
Application to Job of the principles in regard to affliction just enunciated by Elihu. Job 36:16 are difficult and have been understood in a great variety of ways. The general sense expressed by the...
EVEN SO WOULD HE HAVE REMOVED THEE, &C.— _He would have also screened thee from the edge of the broad sword, against which nothing can make resistance; and the provision of thy table should have been...
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...
_EVEN SO WOULD HE HAVE REMOVED THEE OUT OF THE STRAIT INTO A BROAD PLACE, WHERE THERE IS NO STRAITNESS; AND THAT WHICH SHOULD BE SET ON THY TABLE SHOULD BE FULL OF FATNESS._ Literally, He would have l...
36:16 fatness. (d-33) Some read 'thy table would be quiet and full of fatness.'...
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...
Job thought that he was merely waiting to die. But God had wonderful plans for Job....
EVEN SO WOULD HE HAVE REMOVED THEE. It is possible to understand this verse somewhat otherwise, and the sense may perhaps be improved. Elihu may be speaking, not of what God would have done, but of wh...
וְ אַ֤ף הֲסִיתְךָ֨ ׀ מִ פִּי ־צָ֗ר רַ֭חַב
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...
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and (l) that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness. (l) If you had be...
CHAPTER XXXVI. He shall. He would have prevented thee from falling into this irremediable distress, if thou hadst imitated the poor who trust in Him. (Calmet) --- Yea, he will still restore thee to f...
(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...
EVEN SO,.... Here Elihu accommodates what he had said to the case of Job; that had he hearkened and been obedient to the voice of God in his rod, and had submitted to his chastening hand, and patientl...
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness. Ver. 16. _Even so wou...
_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...
Even so would He have removed thee, Elihu here making the application to the case of Job, OUT OF THE STRAIT INTO A BROAD PLACE, WHERE THERE IS NO STRAITNESS, God would have lured and coaxed him out of...
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....
THAT WHICH SHOULD BE SET ON THY TABLE: _ Heb._ the rest of thy table...
God was seeking to free Job from distress, straits,. cramped situation, and take him to. spacious place, that is,. place with no obstructions....
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...
EVEN SO, if thou hadst opened thine ear to God's counsels, and humbled thyself under his correcting hand, and sued to God for mercy, WOULD HE HAVE REMOVED THEE; as this verb is used, 2 CHRONICLES 18:3...
Job 36:16 brought H5496 (H8689) distress H6310 H6862 place H7338 where H8478 restraint H4164 set H5183 table...
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...
_Out of the strait into a broad place._ AN INVITATION TO STRAITENED SOULS What is literally straitness? The word “strait” means “narrow.” The place between two mountains or two seas is a strait or na...
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 36:16 Elihu suggests that Job should see his own suffering as God seizing him in JUDGMENT and JUSTICE....
_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...
Isaiah 25:6; Isaiah 55:2; Job 19:8; Job 42:10; Psalms 118:5;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3