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Verse Job 36:18. _BECAUSE_ THERE IS _WRATH_] This is a time in which
God is punishing the wicked; take heed lest thou be cut off in a
moment. Redeem the time; the days are evil.
_THEN A GREAT RANSOM_...
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BECAUSE THERE IS WRATH - That is, the wrath of God is to be dreaded.
The meaning is, that if Job persevered in the spirit which he had
manifested, he had every reason to expect that God would suddenly...
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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
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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In this verse _wrath_appears to be that of Job, as "anger," Job 36:13.
Elihu warns him against allowing it to entice him into rebellion
against God, comp. ch. Job 34:37. The A. V. takes "wrath" as tha...
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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...
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_BECAUSE THERE IS WRATH, BEWARE LEST HE TAKE THEE AWAY WITH HIS
STROKE: THEN A GREAT RANSOM CANNOT DELIVER THEE._
(Numbers 16:45; Psalms 49:6; Matthew 16:26.) Even the "ransom" by
Jesus Christ ...
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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...
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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....
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Render, 'For beware lest wrath lead thee away into mockery: neither
let the greatness of the ransom (Job's sufferings) turn thee aside,'
i.e. into rebellion....
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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...
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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...
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BECAUSE THERE IS WRATH. — “For there is wrath: now, therefore,
beware lest He take thee away with one stroke, so that great ransom
cannot deliver thee.” Literally it is, _let not a great ransom
delive...
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כִּֽי ־חֵ֭מָה פֶּן ־יְסִֽיתְךָ֣ בְ
סָ֑פֶק וְ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(n) Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with
[his] stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
(n) God punishes you, lest you forget God in your wealth and so
perish....
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(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...
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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...
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BECAUSE [THERE IS] WRATH,.... Either wrath in Job, so some;
indignation and impatience under the afflicting hand of God, expressed
by cursing the day of his birth, and by his angry pleadings with God:...
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Because [there is] wrath, [beware] lest he take thee away with [his]
stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Ver. 18. _Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with
his stroke_]...
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_Because there is wrath_ Conceived by God against thee; because, by
thy pleading the cause of the wicked, thou hast provoked God's wrath
against thee; _beware lest he take thee away by his stroke_
בשׂ...
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Because there is wrath, beware lest He take thee away with His stroke,
Job should not let the heat of his afflictions mislead him by its
greatness and thus become guilty of presumptuous mocking; THEN...
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THE BENEVOLENT PURPOSES OF DIVINE JUSTICE...
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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....
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DELIVER THEE:
_ Heb._ turn thee aside...
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_ _ Job 36:18 Job needs to be careful that his pain and suffering do
not move him towards acting like or speaking like. scoffer. "And not
let 'the greatness of the ransom' (the large price he is payin...
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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...
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BECAUSE THERE IS WRATH, to wit, conceived by God against thee. Because
by thy pleading the cause of the wicked, thou hast deserved that God
should give sentence against thee, as was now said, and hast...
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Job 36:18 wrath H2534 away H5496 (H8686) blow H5607 large H7230 ransom
H3724 avoid H5186 (H8686)
Because -
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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...
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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...
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_Because there is wrath._
THE WRATH OF GOD
The language of the text may be spoken to every impenitent and
unbelieving sinner of the human race.
I. The actual. “There is wrath.”
1. This wrath is Div...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Timothy 2:6; Ephesians 5:6; Ezekiel 24:16; Hebrews 2:3; Isaiah 14:6;...
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HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB
Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
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Wrath — Conceived by God against thee. Then — If once God's wrath
take hold of thee, no ransom will be accepted for thee....