Job 34:9
What meaning of the job 34:9 in the Bible?
What does Job 34:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God."
What does Job 34:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God."
FOR HE HATH SAID, IT PROFITETH A MAN NOTHING THAT HE SHOULD DELIGHT HIMSELF IN GOD - That is, there is no advantage in piety, and in endeavoring to serve God. It will make no difference in the divine...
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) Job 34:1. In beginning this part of the ad...
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...
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
Elihu recites Job's statement of his cause against God, expressing his abhorrence of Job's sentiments....
C. THE SOURCE OF JUSTICE (Job 34:1-37) 1. Job is walking with wicked men when he attributes injustice to God. (Job 34:1-9) TEXT 34:1-9 1 MOREOVER ELIHU ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 Hear my words, ye wis...
_FOR HE HATH SAID, IT PROFITETH A MAN NOTHING THAT HE SHOULD DELIGHT HIMSELF WITH GOD._ With God - in intimacy (Psalms 50:18, "When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been...
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...
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...
IT PROFITETH A MAN NOTHING. — Comp. what Job had said (Job 9:20; Job 9:30; Job 10:6; Job 10:14). Eliphaz had virtually said the same thing, though the form in which he cast it was the converse of this...
כִּֽי ־אָ֭מַר לֹ֣א יִסְכָּן ־גָּ֑בֶר בִּ֝ רְצֹתֹ֗ו עִם ־אֱלֹהִֽים׃...
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 Bar...
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 c...
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...
For he hath said, (h) It profiteth a man nothing that he should (i) delight himself with God. (h) He wrests Job's words who said that God's children are often punished in this world, and the wicked g...
_With him, and strive to please him. Horrible blasphemy! of which Job was incapable: as if God were a cruel master, and threw us into despair. He had asserted that God punishes the wicked, and often t...
(1) В¶ Furthermore Elihu answered and said, (2) Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. (3) For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. (4) Let us choose t...
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...
FOR HE HATH SAID,.... Not plainly and expressly, but consequentially; what it was thought might be inferred from what he had said, particularly in Job 9:22; IT PROFITETH A MAN NOTHING THAT HE SHOULD...
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God. Ver. 9. _For he hath said, It profiteth a man not_] Did Job ever say so or think so? where? and when? He said ind...
_Who drinketh up scorning like water_ That is, abundantly and greedily: who doth so break forth into scornful expressions, not only against his friends, but, in some sort, even against God himself. Th...
JOB ACCUSED OF FALSEHOOD AND BLASPHEMY...
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 t...
Elihu is also horrified by the argument that it profits man nothing to serve God faithfully, compare with Job 9:30-31. "To say that. person is no better off for having served God is. complaint Elihu a...
1-9 Elihu calls upon those present to decide with him upon Job's words. The plainest Christian, whose mind is enlightened, whose heart is sanctified by the Spirit of God, and who is versed in the Scri...
HE HATH SAID; not absolutely and in express terms, but by unforced consequence, and as concerning this life, and with reference to himself; because he said that good men were no less, nay, sometimes m...
Job 34:9 said H559 (H8804) profits H5532 (H8799) man H1397 delight H7521 (H8800) God H430 It - Job 9:22-23, Job 9:30-31, Job 21:14-16, Job 21:30, Job 22:17,...
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...
_What man is like Job?_ ELIHU’S ESTIMATE OF JOB It was natural that, with all his reverence for Job, Elihu should be offended by the heat and passion of his words, by the absence of moderation and se...
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. Job 34:10). H...
_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 probab...
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 o...
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'...
Job 21:14; Job 21:30; Job 22:17; Job 27:10; Job 35:3; Job 9:22; Job 9:23; Job 9:30; Job 9:31; Malachi 3:14; Psalms 37:4
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, _Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 36:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We now come to that part of the Book of Job which presents a most remarkable message sp...
He said — Not in express terms, but by consequence; because he said that good men were no less, nay, sometimes more miserable here than the wicked....