EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
Job 33:19-22
This man sounds like Job. But we are not sure, because of verse 27. The man in the story was evil. But Job was not evil. And Elihu was angry about people who accused Job without evidence (Job 32:3).
This man sounds like Job. But we are not sure, because of verse 27. The man in the story was evil. But Job was not evil. And Elihu was angry about people who accused Job without evidence (Job 32:3).
Verse Job 33:19. _HE IS CHASTENED ALSO WITH PAIN UPON HIS BED, C._] IV. - AFFLICTIONS are a _fourth_ means which God makes use of to awaken and convert sinners. In the hand of God these were the caus...
HE IS CHASTENED ALSO WITH PAIN - As another means of checking and restraining him from the commission of sin. When the warnings of the night fail, and when he is bent on a life of sin, then God lays h...
CHAPTER 33:8-33 _ 1. Elihu rebukes Job (Job 33:8)_ 2. How God deals with man (Job 33:14) 3. How God in grace recovers (Job 33:23) 4. Mark well, Job, hearken unto me ...
There is a second way, when a man is brought near to death, and the destroying angels wait to take his life. Then an angel of mercy instructs man in the meaning of his suffering, intercedes for him, a...
_multitude of his Bones with strong pain_ Rather, AND WITH A CONTINUAL STRIFE IN HIS BONES the word "strife" meaning "conflict of pain." This is the reading of the Heb. text. The A. V. has adopted the...
When Elihu gives the general answer to Job's charges against God that "God is greater than man" he means that the moral loftiness of God's nature made it impossible that He should act in the arbitrary...
These verses may describe another instance of God's dealing with man, or a further discipline of the same person (Job 33:15), the result stated Job 33:18 not having been attained. The passage has four...
HE IS CHASTENED ALSO WITH PAIN— _Or if he is chastened with great pains on his bed, and he crieth out aloud, through great pain in his bones;_ Job 33:20. _And his life abhorreth_—ver. 21 _his flesh wa...
TEXT 33:19-22 19 HE IS CHASTENED ALSO WITH PAIN UPON HIS BED, And with continual strife in his bones; 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food. 21 His flesh is consumed away,...
_HE IS CHASTENED ALSO WITH PAIN UPON HIS BED, AND THE MULTITUDE OF HIS BONES WITH STRONG PAIN:_ When man does not heed warnings of the night, he is chastened, etc. The new thought suggested by Elihu...
33:19 bones; (g-16) Or 'and the multitude of his bones [with] constant [pains].'...
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-13. Elihu blames Job for regarding himself as sinless, and complaining that' God is his enemy and will not answer him....
HE IS CHASTENED. — This is the second manner in which God speaks — first by dreams, &c., then by afflictions. AND THE MULTITUDE OF HIS BONES WITH STRONG PAIN. — Or, reading it otherwise, we may rende...
וְ הוּכַ֣ח בְּ֭ מַכְאֹוב עַל ־מִשְׁכָּבֹ֑ו _וְ_†ר
XXV. POST-EXILIC WISDOM Job 32:1; Job 33:1; Job 34:1 A PERSONAGE hitherto unnamed in the course of the drama now assumes the place of critic and judge between Job and his friends. Elihu, son of Bara...
THE INTERPRETER Job 33:1 It is not wonderful that Elihu has been mistaken for the Mediator Himself, so helpfully does he interpose between Job and his Maker. He dwells especially on his own likeness...
Elihu began his direct appeal to Job by asking his attention, assuring him of sincerity in motive, and finally declaring that he spoke to him as a comrade, not as a judge, or one who would fill him wi...
_Also. This is the second method of instruction. Eliu pretends that Job had thus been visited by God, and had not understood his meaning._...
(18) He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. (19) В¶ He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: (20) So that...
Elihu's Speeches I. INTRODUCTION A. In our last study of the book of Job (Chapter s 11-14), - Job had just replied to Zophar's speech. 1. Chapter 14 concludes the "first round" of speeches by Job's...
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 IS CHASTENED ALSO WITH PAIN UPON HIS BED,.... This seems to be another way, in which God, according to his eternal purposes, speaks unto men, as the word "also" intimates; namely, by afflictions, a...
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain]: Ver. 19. _He is chastened also with pain upon his bed_] He is chastened or chidden, _Coarguitur dolore;...
_He keepeth back his soul from the pit_ By these gracious admonitions, whereby God leads men to humiliation of soul before him, and to repentance, he preserves their lives from death and the grave, an...
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, which is also a form of warning on the part of God, AND THE MULTITUDE OF HIS BONES WITH STRONG PAIN, literally, "with strife in his bones continually," the...
OF THE TRUE RELATION OF SINFUL MAN TOWARD GOD...
HE SPEAKS AS A MEDIATOR (vv.1-7) Elihu did not take any haughty and unfeeling attitude as did Job's three friends, but speaks with simple humility, entreating Job to hear and consider what he says ...
This is. vivid description of the pain and suffering that Job was experiencing, and Elihu says that God also speaks to men through such suffering. God can use pain to get. person's attention and bring...
19-28 Job complained of his diseases, and judged by them that God was angry with him; his friends did so too: but Elihu shows that God often afflicts the body for good to the soul. This thought will...
WITH PAIN, or _grief_; with some painful and dangerous diseases, or bodily distempers, which is the second way whereby God instructs men and excites them to repentance; which also was Job's case. THE...
Job 33:19 chastened H3198 (H8717) pain H4341 bed H4904 strong H386 many H7230 (H8675) H7379 bones...
This is part of the speech of young Elihu, who had listened with much patience, but also with great indignation, to the harsh speeches of Job's three friends and to Job's self-righteous answers. Job...
This is a speech of young Elihu, who had sat quietly listening to the taunting words of the three «candid friends» of Job, and to the somewhat exasperated replies of the patriarch. At last, the young...
CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. Affliction is shown to be discipline. CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job. CONCLUSION: God often afflicts the body in love and with gracious designs of good to the sou...
Job 33:4. _The Spirit of God hath made me._ See on Genesis 2:7, and Psalms 33:6. The creation of man was known to all the descendants of Noah, much the same as to Moses. Sanchoniatho the Phœnician his...
_He is chastened also with pain upon his bed._ SANCTIFIED AFFLICTION Two Chapter s in the hook of human life are hard to understand--the prosperity of the wicked, and the afflictions of the righteou...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 33:1 Elihu opens and closes this section with a call for Job to listen to his words and answer if he is able (vv. Job 33:1,...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 33:19 PAIN ON HIS BED... STRIFE IN HIS BONES. Elihu uses vivid images, to make Job see his physical state as God’s warning to him. ⇐
_ELIHU’S FIRST SPEECH_ Elihu addresses himself to Job on the subject of God’s afflictive dispensations. Afflictions often disciplinary chastisements. I. HE BESPEAKS JOB’S CAREFUL ATTENTION TO ALL TH...
EXPOSITION JOB 33:1 In this chapter Elihu, turning away from the "comforters," proceeds to address Job himself, offering to reason out the matter in dispute with him, in God's stead. After a brief e...
Wherefore, Job, [he said,] I pray thee, now hear my speech, hearken to all my words. Behold, I've opened my mouth, my tongue has spoken in my mouth. My words shall be of uprightness of my heart: and m...
1 Corinthians 11:32; 2 Chronicles 16:10; 2 Chronicles 16:12; Deuteronomy 8:5;...
GOD'S METHOD OF GRACE Job 33:18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In our Scripture today Elihu is addressing Job, and his three supposed friends. Elihu had listened to the speeches of Bildad, Zophar, and Eliphaz....
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
Pain — The second way whereby God instructs men and excites them to repentance....