Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 34:31
Verse Job 34:31. Surely it is meet to be said unto God] This is Elihu's exhortation to Job: Humble thyself before God, and say, "I have suffered - I will not offend."
Verse Job 34:31. Surely it is meet to be said unto God] This is Elihu's exhortation to Job: Humble thyself before God, and say, "I have suffered - I will not offend."
SURELY IT IS MEET TO BE SAID UNTO GOD - It is evident that this verse commences a new strain of remark, and that it is designed particularly to bring Job to proper reflections in view of what had occu...
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)...
If God does not intervene, who can condemn Him, even if He set up the wicked to rule? If only man penitently confesses his sin, is Job to presume to fix his punishment? Wise men will say that Job has...
The connexion of the following verses is rather uncertain. The sense of Job 34:30 might suggest the connexion of Job 34:29 with the preceding. In this case Job 34:31 would make a new start, and the co...
A supposition is put: Has any one said unto God? where _God_is emphatic, the emphasis implying the unseemliness and presumption of the act. The case is put generally, but the case is that of Job, as J...
Elihu gradually approaches the conduct of Job. He supposes the case of one animadverting on the Divine procedure and complaining of unjust affliction. This is presumption and implies that one usurps t...
I HAVE BORNE CHASTISEMENT, &C.— _I lift up my hands; let me not be utterly destroyed._ Heath. See Houb....
4. Job is rebellious in multiplying wicked words against God. (Job 34:31-37) TEXT 34:31-37 31 FOR HATH ANY SAID UNTO GOD, I have borne _chastisement__,_ I WILL NOT OFFEND _ANY MORE:_ 32 That which...
_SURELY IT IS MEET TO BE SAID UNTO GOD, I HAVE BORNE CHASTISEMENT, I WILL NOT OFFEND ANY MORE:_ Job accordingly says so (Job 40:3; Micah 7:9; Leviticus 26:41). It was to lead him to this that Elihu wa...
34:31 he (i-3) i.e. Job....
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...
Render, 'For hath any said unto God, I have borne _chastisement_ though I offend not?'...
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...
Job and his friends agreed that God should punish evil people. In fact, God prefers to forgive people. However, God will not forgive everyone, whatever their attitude may be. People must confess their...
I HAVE BORNE CHASTISEMENT... — These verses express the attitude that should be assumed towards God: one of submission and penitence....
כִּֽי ־אֶל ־אֵ֭ל הֶ אָמַ֥ר נָשָׂ֗אתִי לֹ֣א
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...
Surely it is meet (z) to be said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]: (z) It only belongs to God to moderate his corrections, and not to man....
_Seeing. Hebrew, "Thou shouldst have said to the Lord, I have suffered enough: (Calmet) I will not offend." (Protestants) (Haydock) (Ver. 32.) --- Turn. He had undertaken to plead God's cause. (Calmet...
(29) When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only: (30) That the hypocrite reig...
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...
SURELY IT IS MEET TO BE SAID UNTO GOD,.... By any afflicted person under his chastising hand, and particularly by Job, for whom the advice and instructions in this verse and Job 34:32 are designed: I...
Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne [chastisement], I will not offend [any more]: Ver. 31. _Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement_] To convince a man of a f...
_Surely it is meet to be said unto God_ It is certainly but fit and reasonable that man, a weak and sinful creature, should speak thus to his Maker and supreme Lord, who is so much superior to him, an...
JOB CHARGED WITH INCONSISTENCY...
Surely it is meet to be said unto God, or, "Is it that one indeed says to God?" I HAVE BORNE CHASTISEMENT, I WILL NOT OFFEND ANY MORE, expiating, bearing punishment without having done evil....
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...
Now Elihu focuses in on Job's situation. "Suppose. man, who has 'borne' chastisement, says to the Lord, 'Alright,. have done wrong.. won't do it again. Now, tell me exactly what you were punishing me...
31-37 When we reprove for what is amiss, we must direct to what is good. Job's friends would have had him own himself a wicked man. Let will only oblige him to own that he spoke unadvisedly with his...
Certainly it is but fit and reasonable that man should say thus to his Maker and supreme Lord, and that instead of contending with God, he should submit to him. Or, (which comes to the same thing,) _B...
Job 34:31 said H559 (H8736) God H410 borne H5375 (H8804) offend H2254 (H8799)...
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...
_Surely it is meet to be said unto God._ THE SECOND SPEECH OF ELIHU I. A good counsel. Elihu recommends Job to do two things. 1. To resolve on an improved life. This includes-- (1) Moral reform....
_I have borne chastisement._ THE NATURE AND NECESSITY OF HOLY RESOLUTION There are two essential parts of a true repentance. A humble acknowledgment and confession of our sins to God. A firm purpose...
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'...
Daniel 9:7; Ezra 9:13; Ezra 9:14; Jeremiah 31:18; Jeremiah 31:19;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3