Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 36:9
Work — Their evil works, by these afflictions he brings them to a sight of their sins. Exceeded — That they have greatly sinned by abusing their power and prosperity; which even good men are too prone to do.
Work — Their evil works, by these afflictions he brings them to a sight of their sins. Exceeded — That they have greatly sinned by abusing their power and prosperity; which even good men are too prone to do.
Verse Job 36:9. _HE SHOWETH THEM THEIR WORK_] He shows them the exceeding sinfulness of sin. _THAT THEY HAVE EXCEEDED._] יתגברו _yithgabbaru_, "that they have strengthened themselves," and did not tr...
THEN HE SHOWETH THEM THEIR WORK - What their lives have been. This he does either by a messenger sent to them Job 33:23, or by their own reflections Job 33:27, or by the influences of his Spirit leadi...
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...
TRANSGRESSIONS. Hebrew. _pasha'._ App-44....
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....
_that they have exceeded_ Or, HAVE DEALT PROUDLY, ch. Job 33:17....
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....
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...
THAT THEY HAVE EXCEEDED— _How they have set him at defiance._ Heath....
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...
36:9 increased. (g-13) Or 'acted proudly.'...
THEIR WORK] i.e. their faults. EXCEEDED] RV 'behaved themselves proudly.'...
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 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...
THEN HE SHEWETH THEM THEIR WORK. — The true nature of their conduct and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. This is Elihu’s special doctrine, that God’s chastisements are...
וַ יַּגֵּ֣ד לָהֶ֣ם פָּעֳלָ֑ם וּ֝ פִשְׁעֵיהֶ֗ם...
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...
Then he sheweth them their (f) work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. (f) He will move their hearts to feel their sins that they may come to him by repentance as he did Manasseh....
_Violent, while in power and on the throne, or because even in a private station, their will has risen up in rebellion against God. (Haydock) --- Poverty and afflictions are scourges, which are often...
(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...
THEN HE SHOWETH THEM THEIR WORK,.... Either what they ought to do, so the Tigurine version; and which they have not done, their sins of omission; when they have been negligent either of the duty of pr...
Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. Ver. 9. _Then he showeth them their work_] By these sharp waters he cleareth up their eyesight, and gives them to se...
_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...
then He showeth them their work, namely, their evildoing, AND THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS THAT THEY HAVE EXCEEDED, having been presumptuous and proud in opposing God....
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....
God allows the righteous to suffer for various purposes, He does not abandon them, rather He might be trying to call their attention to. sin in their life, or humble them so they do not become arrogan...
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...
THEIR WORK, i.e. their evil works, as the next clause explains and limits it. By these afflictions he brings them to a sight of their sins and to repentance, which is the way and means of their recove...
Job 36:9 tells H5046 (H8686) work H6467 defiantly H1396 (H8691) he - Job 10:2;...
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...
_Then He sheweth them their work, and their transgression that they have exceeded._ SHOWING UP OUR TRANSGRESSIONS I. General remarks on the text. 1. Sin is properly attributable to man. It is “their...
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...
1 Corinthians 11:32; 1 Timothy 1:15; 2 Chronicles 33:11; Deuteronomy 4:21;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3