Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Job 36:17

The A. V. takes this verse positively; it is more suitable to the connexion and purpose of the speaker to understand it conditionally if thou art filled with, or as A. V. fulfillest. To be full of, or to fulfil, the judgment of the wicked, is to join the wicked in their judgment of God when He afflicts, to lay up wrath against God (Job 36:13), an idea immediately taken up in Job 36:18. If Job acts in this way, as he is too much inclined (Job 36:21), then judgment and justice shall keep hold on him. God's condemnation of him will reveal itself in the continuance and increase of his chastisement (cf. Job 36:13, ch. Job 5:1 seq.). The word "judgment" is used in the one clause of man's, and in the other of God's judgment, making a forcible antithesis.

Continues after advertising

See also Job 36:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 36:17. _BUT THOU HAST FULFILLED THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED_] As thou art acting like the wicked, so God deals with thee as he deals with them. Elihu is not a whit behind Job's other friends...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT THOU HAST FULFILLED THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED - Rosenmuller explains this as meaning, “If under divine inflictions and chastisements you wish to imitate the obduracy of the wicked, then the cause...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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;...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BUT THOU HAST FULFILLED THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED: JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE TAKE HOLD ON THEE._ 'But if thou art fulfilled (i:e., entirely filled) with the judgment of the wicked' (i:e., the guilt incur...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    36:17 judgments (e-7) Lit. 'judgment,' 'sentence.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    HAST FULFILLED] RV 'art full of.' Job acts like the wicked under affliction: cp. Job 36:13....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job did not deserve these troubles. But while Job was suffering, God was making Job into a better person (1 Peter 1:6-7; Job 23:10). Soon God would rescue Job (chapter 42). Soon God would answer Job,...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ דִין ־רָשָׁ֥ע מָלֵ֑אתָ דִּ֖ין וּ מִשְׁפָּ֣

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But thou hast fulfilled the (m) judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee]. (m) You are altogether after the manner of the wicked: for you murmur against the justice of God....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Recover. Thou shalt be treated as thou hast treated others. Hebrew is not well understood. It may be, "Thou hast spoken like the impious; but judgment and justice rule. (18) Beware lest wrath overtak...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THOU HAST FULFILLED THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED,.... Some w take this to be a continuation of the happiness Job would have enjoyed, had he behaved in his affliction as he ought to have done; then h...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee]. Ver. 17. _But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked_] But thou contrariwise blusterest against G...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked_ Or, the _cause_, or _sentence_, as the word דין _din_, most properly signifies. Thou hast fully pleaded their cause, and justified the hard speeche...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE BENEVOLENT PURPOSES OF DIVINE JUSTICE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, rather, thou art filled with this judgment, Job was experiencing its misery; JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE TAKE HOLD ON THEE, not departing from his person a...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE TAKE HOLD ON THEE: Or, judgment and justice should uphold thee...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "Instead, he lashed out at God and so was visited with judgment such as is suitable for the wicked" _(Jackson p. 73)._...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE JUDGMENT; or, _the cause_, or _sentence_, as the word most properly signifieth. Thou hast fully pleaded their cause, and justified the hard and reproachful speeches which wicked men in their rage...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 36:17 filled H4390 (H8804) judgment H1779 wicked H7563 Judgment H1779 justice H4941 hold H8551 (H8799)...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:1 Elihu concludes his lengthy speech. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:16 Elihu suggests that Job should see his own suffering as God seizing him in JUDGMENT and JUSTICE....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Job 16:5; Job 34:36; Job 34:8; Revelation 18:4; Romans 1:32...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The judgment — Or, the sentence, thou hast justified the hard speeches which wicked men utter against God. Therefore — Therefore the just judgment of God takes hold on thee. Thou hast maintained their...

Continues after advertising