Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 36:17
But thou hast fulfilled the (m) judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
(m) You are altogether after the manner of the wicked: for you murmur against the justice of God.
But thou hast fulfilled the (m) judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee].
(m) You are altogether after the manner of the wicked: for you murmur against the justice of God.
Verse Job 36:17. _BUT THOU HAST FULFILLED THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED_] As thou art acting like the wicked, so God deals with thee as he deals with them. Elihu is not a whit behind Job's other friends...
BUT THOU HAST FULFILLED THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED - Rosenmuller explains this as meaning, “If under divine inflictions and chastisements you wish to imitate the obduracy of the wicked, then the cause...
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...
The A. V. takes this verse positively; it is more suitable to the connexion and purpose of the speaker to understand it conditionally _if thou art filled with_, or as A. V. _fulfillest_. To be full of...
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...
_BUT THOU HAST FULFILLED THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED: JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE TAKE HOLD ON THEE._ 'But if thou art fulfilled (i:e., entirely filled) with the judgment of the wicked' (i:e., the guilt incur...
36:17 judgments (e-7) Lit. 'judgment,' 'sentence.'...
HAST FULFILLED] RV 'art full of.' Job acts like the wicked under affliction: cp. Job 36:13....
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...
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....
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...
Job did not deserve these troubles. But while Job was suffering, God was making Job into a better person (1 Peter 1:6-7; Job 23:10). Soon God would rescue Job (chapter 42). Soon God would answer Job,...
וְ דִין ־רָשָׁ֥ע מָלֵ֑אתָ דִּ֖ין וּ מִשְׁפָּ֣
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...
_Recover. Thou shalt be treated as thou hast treated others. Hebrew is not well understood. It may be, "Thou hast spoken like the impious; but judgment and justice rule. (18) Beware lest wrath overtak...
(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...
BUT THOU HAST FULFILLED THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED,.... Some w take this to be a continuation of the happiness Job would have enjoyed, had he behaved in his affliction as he ought to have done; then h...
But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee]. Ver. 17. _But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked_] But thou contrariwise blusterest against G...
_But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked_ Or, the _cause_, or _sentence_, as the word דין _din_, most properly signifies. Thou hast fully pleaded their cause, and justified the hard speeche...
But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked, rather, thou art filled with this judgment, Job was experiencing its misery; JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE TAKE HOLD ON THEE, not departing from his person a...
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....
JUDGMENT AND JUSTICE TAKE HOLD ON THEE: Or, judgment and justice should uphold thee...
"Instead, he lashed out at God and so was visited with judgment such as is suitable for the wicked" _(Jackson p. 73)._...
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...
THE JUDGMENT; or, _the cause_, or _sentence_, as the word most properly signifieth. Thou hast fully pleaded their cause, and justified the hard and reproachful speeches which wicked men in their rage...
Job 36:17 filled H4390 (H8804) judgment H1779 wicked H7563 Judgment H1779 justice H4941 hold H8551 (H8799)...
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...
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 36:16 Elihu suggests that Job should see his own suffering as God seizing him in JUDGMENT and JUSTICE....
_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...
Job 16:5; Job 34:36; Job 34:8; Revelation 18:4; Romans 1:32...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
The judgment — Or, the sentence, thou hast justified the hard speeches which wicked men utter against God. Therefore — Therefore the just judgment of God takes hold on thee. Thou hast maintained their...