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), and then he would perish (15).
Verse Job 34:13. _WHO HATH GIVEN HIM A CHARGE_] _Who_ is it that governs the world? Is it not God? Who disposes of all things in it? Is it not the Almighty, by his just and merciful providence? The go...
WHO HATH GIVEN HIM A CHARGE OVER THE EARTH? - That is, he is the great original Proprietor and Ruler of all. He has derived his authority to govern from no one; he is under subjection to no one, and h...
CHAPTER 34 _ 1. Hear my words ye wise men (Job 34:1)_ 2. The refutation of Job's accusation of God (Job 34:5) 3. Job needs testing to the end (Job 34:31)...
Elihu summons the wise men who hear him to seek a right decision. Job has accused God of injustice, when he is innocent. But in reality Job is the worst of scorners, for he denies the profit of religi...
WHO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6....
This charge of injustice Elihu rebuts, _first_, on the general ground of its impiety: God cannot be thought of as acting in the way Job asserted He rewardeth every man according to his works (Job 34:1...
The first thought of Elihu is that the earth, the world, is not entrusted to God by another; He himself arranged it all as it is; there is therefore no motive to injustice. This is one side of his ide...
WHO HATH GIVEN HIM A CHARGE?— _Who, on earth, can be his overseer?_ The meaning is, "Who on earth hath authority to examine into and controul his proceedings?" See Schultens and Heath....
TEXT 34:10-15 10 THEREFORE HEARKEN ONTO ME, YE MEN OF UNDERSTANDING: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. 11 For the work of a ma...
_WHO HATH GIVEN HIM A CHARGE OVER THE EARTH? OR WHO HATH DISPOSED THE WHOLE WORLD?_ If the world were not God's property, as having been made by Him, but committed to His charge by some superior, it m...
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 34 ELIHU DISCUSSES THE SPEE...
These are important verses. The Bible clearly teaches such things. • God is not evil. It was the devil, not God, who caused Job’s troubles. We should never blame God when evil things happen. • God i...
WHO HATH DISPOSED THE WHOLE WORLD? — Or, _Who hath set the whole world upon Him? i.e.,_ entrusted it to His care; in the other sense it means, “Who but He hath made the whole world, and who, therefore...
מִֽי ־פָקַ֣ד עָלָ֣יו אָ֑רְצָה וּ מִ֥י שָׂ֝֗ם
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 ALMIGHTY MUST BE JUST Job 34:1 Elihu stands in Job 34:10 as God's apologist. God's absolute and impartial justice is at all times a matter of untold comfort. There will be no cause of ultimate co...
Job gave no answer to the challenge, and Elihu proceeded. He first appealed to the wise men, asked that they would listen in order to try his words. He then made two quotations from the things Job had...
_Earth? If God cannot be unjust, hat he given the administration of the world to some other, who may have been deceived? This will not be asserted. Hebrew, "who hath visited the earth for him?" or, "w...
(13) Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? (14) If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; (15) All flesh shall peri...
3. NOW ON TO CHAPTER 34 H. Job 34:1-9 (NKJV) Elihu further answered and said: 2 "Hear my words, you wise [men]; Give ear to me, you who have knowledge. 3 For the ear tests words As the palate taste...
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...
WHO HATH GIVEN HIM A CHARGE OVER THE EARTH?.... Or who hath committed the earth unto him, and made it his care and charge? Is there any above him that has put him into this post and office? Under whos...
Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? Ver. 13. _Who hath given him a charge over all the earth?_] _sc._ To govern it. Is not he the Maker and Monarch of al...
_Who hath given him a charge over the earth?_ Over the inhabitants of the earth, to rule them according to his laws, and to give an account to him thereof? Who or where is his superior, that made the...
Who hath given Him a charge over the earth, delivering the earth to his power, placing it under His direction? OR WHO HATH DISPOSED THE WHOLE WORLD, establishing and governing the whole circle of the...
PROOF OF THE DIVINE RIGHTEOUSNESS...
HIS APPEAL AS TO WISE MEN (vv.1-4) Since Job had wisely refrained from speaking, Elihu makes an appeal to all his hearers, as to wise men (v.2). This reminds us of1 Corinthians 10:15, "I speak as to...
THE WHOLE: _ Heb._ all of it...
"Having independent authority as the world's Sovereign, no one could influence Him away from justice" _(Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 760). _...
10-15 Elihu had showed Job, that God meant him no hurt by afflicting him, but intended his spiritual benefit. Here he shows, that God did him no wrong by afflicting him. If the former did not satisfy...
OVER THE EARTH, i.e. over the inhabitants of the earth, to rule them according to his laws, and to give an account to him of it. Who or where is his superior that made the world, and then delivered th...
Job 34:13 charge H6485 (H8804) earth H776 appointed H7760 (H8804) world H8398 Who hath given - Job 36:23
Job 34:1. _Furthermore Elihu answered and said, Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat._ I wish that verse was...
CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. He magnifies God's holiness. CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: It is absurd and unreasonable to multiply words in complaint against God's ways....
Job 34:5. _Job hath said God hath taken away my judgment._ See on Job 27:2. Elihu, in every accusation, takes or turns Job's words in a wrong sense. Job meant that God had varied, in regard of him, th...
_Who hath disposed the whole world._ THE DISPOSER OF THE WORLD It becomes us to entertain proper apprehensions of “Him with whom we have to do.” I. God’s all-disposing agency. 1. God is the dispose...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 34:1 Elihu calls on “wise men” to hear Job’s contention that he is in the right (vv. Job 34:2) and “men of understanding” to hear Elihu’s argument against this claim (vv....
_ELIHU’S SECOND SPEECH_ Probably after waiting for a reply from Job, and none being forthcoming, Elihu resumes. Job 34:1.—“Furthermore Elihu answered (took up speech), and said”. Job’s silence probabl...
EXPOSITION JOB 34:1 In this chapter Elihu turns from Job to those whom he addresses as "wise men" (verse 2), or "men of understanding" (verse 10). Whether these are Job's three special friends, or ot...
Furthermore Elihu went on then [Job didn't answer], he said, Hear my words, O ye wise men; give ear unto me, that have knowledge. For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes meat (Job 34:1-3). That'...
1 Chronicles 29:11; Daniel 4:35; Isaiah 40:13; Isaiah 40:14; Job 36:
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
Who — Who or where is his superior that made the world, and, then delivered the government of it to God? God himself is the sole creator, the absolute Lord of all, and therefore cannot do unjustly: be...