_ELIHU SETS FORTH THE JUSTICE OF GOD IN ALL HIS WAYS, AND EXTOLS THE GREATNESS OF HIS POWER AND PROVIDENCE._ _Before Christ 1645._ _JOB 36:1. ELIHU ALSO PROCEEDED_— Elihu goes on to lay before Job the impropriety of his behaviour towards God, and desires him to consider how vain it will prove; tha... [ Continue Reading ]
HE THAT IS PERFECT IN KNOWLEDGE— _Though the perfection of knowledge be with thee:_ Heath; who thinks that this alludes to Job's sarcasm, chap. Job 12:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
DESPISETH NOT ANY— _Will not yield to any._ Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT THEY HAVE EXCEEDED— _How they have set him at defiance._ Heath.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE DELIVERETH THE POOR IN HIS AFFLICTION— _Whilst,_ or, _but he delivereth,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN SO WOULD HE HAVE REMOVED THEE, &C.— _He would have also screened thee from the edge of the broad sword, against which nothing can make resistance; and the provision of thy table should have been full._... [ Continue Reading ]
DESIRE NOT THE NIGHT— _Desire not the night that thou mayest oppress the afflicted, expecting nothing less:_ Houbigant. But Heath renders it, _Wish not earnestly for the night, to descend to the lower regions;_ and the 21st verse, _Beware, look not upon iniquity, so as to choose it rather than affli... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE MAKETH SMALL, &C.— _Who causeth the exhalations of the waters to mount on high, which form the rain in his clouds,_ (Job 36:28.) _when the heavens pour down._... [ Continue Reading ]
ALSO, CAN ANY UNDERSTAND, &C.— _How much more when he manifesteth the burstings of the clouds; the crash of the thunder of his pavilion!_ Job 36:30. _See his lightning flasheth around him! he turneth up the bottom of the sea:_ Job 36:31. _Verily by them he executeth judgment on the nations,_ &c.; Jo... [ Continue Reading ]