_A.M. 2484. B.C. 1520._ Our righteousness profits ourselves, not God, Job 35:1. Our wickedness hurts not him, but other men, whom God would help, if they cried to him sincerely, Job 35:8. Why he delayed to help Job, vv14-16.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Elihu spake moreover_ Job still keeping silence, perhaps because he was convinced that although Elihu had made a very harsh construction of his words, he was influenced by a good motive in what he had advanced, and had now, in the conclusion, given him very wholesome counsel, and, allowing his inte... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thinkest thou this to be right?_ Canst thou in thy conscience, upon second thoughts, approve of what thou hast said? _My righteousness is more than God's_ Not that Job said this in express terms, but he said those things from which this might seem to follow, as that God had punished him more than h... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will answer thee, and thy companions_ That is, those who are of thy opinion. _Look unto the heavens_, &c. Cast up thine eyes to the heavens; look upon the clouds and the sky; and consider that, high as they are, they are not so much above thee, as God is above them. _If thou sinnest, what doest t... [ Continue Reading ]
_By reason of the multitude of oppressions_ This verse has been supposed by many to contain an argument to prove what he had said Job 35:8, that the wickedness of one man may hurt another: but Elihu rather seems to be here beginning a new subject, and, having answered one of Job's objections, to pro... [ Continue Reading ]
_Who teacheth us more than the beasts_ This is mentioned as a further aggravation of men's neglect of God in their misery. God hath given to men those gifts which he hath denied to beasts, reason and understanding, whereby they might become acquainted with God and themselves, and with their obligati... [ Continue Reading ]
_There they cry_ Or _then_, as the Hebrew particle here used often means; that is, in that time or condition of trouble; _but none giveth answer_ The reason that God doth not deliver them is, because, though they lie crying under their afflictions, they continue to be evil, wicked, and impenitent; p... [ Continue Reading ]
_Surely God will not hear vanity_ Either, 1st, Vain and light persons, that have no true wisdom nor solid piety in them: but are wholly addicted to vain and worldly things, rejoicing immoderately when they have them, and crying out in distress when they have them not. Or, 2d, Vain cries; which proce... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt not see him_ Or, _thou canst not see him;_ thou canst not understand his dealings with thee. Here Elihu answers another objection of Job's; and tells him that though God may, for a season, delay to answer, yet he will certainly do him right. _Yet judgment is before him_ Justice is at his... [ Continue Reading ]
_But now, because it is not so_ That is, because Job doth not acknowledge God's justice and his own sins, and wait upon God in a proper way for mercy; _he hath visited in his anger_ God hath laid grievous afflictions upon him, all which appear to be too little to bring Job to a compliance with God's... [ Continue Reading ]