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 deliver thee, but the sense is probably like the Authorised Version.
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_...
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...
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
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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 ...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
כִּֽי ־חֵ֭מָה פֶּן ־יְסִֽיתְךָ֣ בְ סָ֑פֶק וְ
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...
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...
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...
(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....
(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...
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...
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:...
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_]...
_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...
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...
THE BENEVOLENT PURPOSES OF DIVINE JUSTICE...
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....
DELIVER THEE: _ Heb._ turn thee aside...
_ _ 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...
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...
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...
Job 36:18 wrath H2534 away H5496 (H8686) blow H5607 large H7230 ransom H3724 avoid H5186 (H8686) Because -
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...
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...
_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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:1 Elihu concludes his lengthy speech. ⇐ ⇔...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:5 Elihu implies that Job’s situation is an example of God using affliction to deliver the righteous from their sin—if they are willing to accept his correction. ⇐
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:18 Elihu suggests that Job should consider the loss of his family, his reputation, and all his household as the RANSOM (compare Job 33:24) by which the Lord is tryin
_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...
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...
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...
1 Timothy 2:6; Ephesians 5:6; Ezekiel 24:16; Hebrews 2:3; Isaiah 14:6;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
Wrath — Conceived by God against thee. Then — If once God's wrath take hold of thee, no ransom will be accepted for thee....