Job 34:1-37
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-9. Elihu appeals to his hearers to judge the matter. He protests against the complaints of Job that he was treated unjustly by God, and that it was no profit to be righteous.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-9. Elihu appeals to his hearers to judge the matter. He protests against the complaints of Job that he was treated unjustly by God, and that it was no profit to be righteous.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Job 12:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
JUDGMENT] RV 'that which is right.'... [ Continue Reading ]
MY JUDGMENT] i.e. my right.... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'Notwithstanding my right I am _accounted_ a liar: My wound is incurable, _though I am_ without transgression.' Right = innocence. 7, 8. Elihu implies that, in indulging in such reckless remarks, Job was linking himself with sinners. 7B. Cp. Job 15:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. e.g. Job 9:21. 10-37. Elihu meets Job's doubts. The omnipotent God cannot commit injustice: the idea is inconsistent with the conception of One who creates and sustains and governs all mankind. Instances are given of His judgments.... [ Continue Reading ]
God has not been entrusted with His rule by a higher Power. 14A. RM 'If he cause his heart to return to himself,' i.e. if God ceased to concern Himself with the affairs of man, and only selfishly regarded Himself. If He acted thus He might withdraw from man the breath of life He had given him (14b)... [ Continue Reading ]
Render, 'Doth one hating right rule?' The thought is the same as Abraham's, 'Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?' (Genesis 18:25): cp. also Romans 3:5. Of course this begs the very question in dispute.... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCEPTETH NOT] RV 'respecteth not,' shows no undue partiality to.... [ Continue Reading ]
The impartiality of God's judgments. WITHOUT HAND] i.e. without human agency.... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'For he needeth not further to consider a man, that he should go before God in judgment.' God at the same time sees and judges every act: there is no need to set apart a special time for trying man.... [ Continue Reading ]
WITHOUT NUMBER] RM 'without inquisition.'... [ Continue Reading ]
HE KNOWETH] RV 'he taketh knowledge OF.' 28. Oppression causes God's intervention.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAKE TROUBLE] RV 'condemn.'... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'That the godless man reign not, that there be none to ensnare the people.'... [ Continue Reading ]
Render, 'For hath any said unto God, I have borne _chastisement_ though I offend not?'... [ Continue Reading ]
'Show me my sin, and I will give it up.' In Job 34:31 Job is rebuked for presumption in criticising God's treatment of him.... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'Shall his recompence be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.' Elihu asks Job ironically if he is to lay down the law to God.... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'Men of understanding will say unto me, yea, every wise man that heareth me.'... [ Continue Reading ]
ANSWERS FOR] RV 'answering like.' Elihu does not really advance on the position of the friends. Omnipotence cannot go wrong, the supreme tribunal cannot be unjust. This is just the point to be proved, and the proof derived from the fact that God gives and sustains man's life, while sound as far as... [ Continue Reading ]