Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 36:21
Chosen — Thou hast chosen rather to quarrel with God, and censure his judgments, than quietly to submit to them.
Chosen — Thou hast chosen rather to quarrel with God, and censure his judgments, than quietly to submit to them.
Verse Job 36:21. _REGARD NOT INIQUITY_] It is sinful to entertain such wishes; it is an insult to the providence of God. _He_ sends affliction; he knows this to be best for thee: but _thou_ hast pref...
TAKE HEED, REGARD NOT INIQUITY - That is, be cautious that in the view which you take of the divine government, and the sentiments which you express, you do not become the advocate of iniquity. Elihu...
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 continues his warning to Job. 20. Desire not that night When the peoples are cut off in their place; 21. Take heed, turn not unto iniquity, For this thou choosest rather than affliction. 20....
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...
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 verse continues the warning against a rebellious mind under affliction, called here "turning unto iniquity"; for Job shews himself more inclined to this than to submission to God's chastening hand...
2. Job has had the wrong spirit toward his sufferings. (Job 36:17-21) TEXT 36:17-21 17 BUT THOU ART FALL OF THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED: Judgment and justice take hold _on thee._ 18 For let not wra...
_TAKE HEED, REGARD NOT INIQUITY: FOR THIS HAST THOU CHOSEN RATHER THAN AFFLICTION._ Regard - literally, turn thyself to. INIQUITY - namely, presumptuous speaking against God (Job 34:5, and above Jo...
INIQUITY] i.e. rebelliousness. 22- JOB 37:24. The wonders of the heavens testify to the majesty and unsearchableness of God. Let Job refrain from judging Him....
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...
Elihu had almost finished his advice for Job. But in these verses, Elihu warned Job about three dangerous ideas: • In verses 18-19, Elihu spoke about money. Many people fail to obey God because of mo...
REGARD NOT INIQUITY. — Or, perhaps, the special sin of longing for death, for thou hast desired to die rather than bear thine affliction. Alas! Job’s case is not a solitary one, for who that has been...
הִ֭שָּׁמֶר אַל ־תֵּ֣פֶן אֶל ־אָ֑וֶן כִּֽי ־עַ
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...
Take heed, regard not (p) iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. (p) And so murmur against God through impatiency....
_Iniquity, or blaspheming, (chap. xxxiv. 37.; Menochius) and murmurs, to which alone thou hast given way since thy fall. (Calmet)_...
(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...
TAKE HEED, REGARD NOT INIQUITY,.... Not any iniquity, as to show any approbation of it, love for it, and desire after it. All appearance of sin, of every sin, is to be abstained from; but particularly...
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. Ver. 21. _Take heed, regard not iniquity_] This especially of blaming God's judgments, as if they were unequal. No mo...
_Desire not the night_ The night of death, which Job had often desired, for then thou art irrecoverably gone: take heed of thy foolish and often-repeated desire of death, lest God inflict it upon thee...
Take heed, regard not iniquity, not turning to vanity and wickedness in the manner shown; FOR THIS HAST THOU CHOSEN RATHER THAN AFFLICTION, that is, in Elihu's opinion Job was too much inclined to arr...
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....
"Job should be careful that he not turn to sin (by complaining), which seems to have been his preference in bearing his trials without complaint" _(Zuck p. 158)._ Elihu feels that holding God in awe a...
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...
REGARD NOT INIQUITY, or, _look not to it_, to wit, with an approving or coveting eye, as this word is used, PROVERBS 23:31. Thou hast chosen rather to quarrel with God, and censure his judgments, than...
Job 36:21 heed H8104 (H8734) turn H6437 (H8799) iniquity H205 chosen H977 (H8804) affliction H6040 regard -
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...
_Take heed; regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction._ AFFLICTION BETTER THAN SIN Elihu rebukes Job with a becoming dignity, for some rash and unadvised speeches which th...
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. ⇐
_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...
1 Peter 3:17; 1 Peter 4:15; 1 Peter 4:16; Acts 5:40; Acts 5:41;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3