Job 36

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:11-12

Job 36:11-12. If they obey God’s admonition and command; they shall spend their days in prosperity They shall be restored to their former prosperity, and shall live and die in it. This he says according to the tenor of God’s promises, especially in the Old Testament state of the church, and according to the common course of God’s providence in those days, which Elihu and other good men had observed; and their years in pleasures Abounding in worldly comforts, and delighting themselves in... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:13-14

Job 36:13-14. But the hypocrites in heart Such as are truly void of that piety which they profess; heap up wrath By their impenitence and obstinacy in all conditions they treasure up God’s wrath against themselves; they cry not Unto God for help. They live in the gross neglect of God and of prayer; when he bindeth them Namely, with the cords of affliction expressed Job 36:8, which is mentioned as an aggravation of their wickedness; because even wicked men, if not hardened in their... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:15-16

Job 36:15-16 . And openeth their ears That is, causeth them to hear, and understand, and do the will of God; hearing being often put for obeying; in oppression That is, in the time of their oppression; or, by oppression, or tribulation, as the means of opening their ears and hearts. He will not deliver all afflicted persons, but only those whose ears he openeth to receive his counsels. Even so would he have removed thee If thou hadst opened thine ear to God’s counsels, humbled... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:17

Job 36:17. 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 speeches which wicked men utter against God. Therefore the just judgment of God takes hold on thee. Thou hast maintained their cause against God, and God passes against thee the sentence of condemnation due to wicked men. read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:18-19

Job 36:18-19. 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 בשׂפק , besaphek, properly, with the stroke of his hand or foot, an allusion to men’s expressing their anger by striking with their hand or stamping with their foot. Look to thyself, and reconcile thyself to God by true repentance, while thou hast an opportunity. A great ransom... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:20-21

Job 36:20-21 . Desire not the night The night of death, which Job had often desired, for then thou art irrecoverably gone: take heed of thy foolish and often-repeated desire of death, lest God inflict it upon thee in anger. When people are cut off in their place By which individuals, and even whole nations and bodies of people, are sometimes cut off in wrath, in their several places where they are: or, are suddenly taken away before they can remove out of the place where the stroke of God... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:22-23

Job 36:22-23. Behold, God exalteth by his power, &c. God is omnipotent; and therefore can either punish thee far worse, or deliver thee, if thou dost repent. He is also infinitely wise; and as none can work like him, so none can teach like him: therefore do not presume to teach him how to govern the world. None teacheth with such authority and convincing evidence, with such condescension and compassion, with such power and efficacy as God doth, he teaches by the Bible, and that is the... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:24-25

Job 36:24-25. Remember Call to mind this thy duty; that thou magnify his work Every work which he doth; do not condemn any of his providential works, but adore them as done with admirable wisdom and justice. Behold With admiration and astonishment. Every man may see it Namely, his work last mentioned. The power, and wisdom, and greatness of God are so manifest in all his works, that all who are not stupid must see and acknowledge them. Man may behold it afar off The works of God... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:26

Job 36:26. Behold, God is great Infinite in majesty, and power, and wisdom, and all perfections, and therefore just in all his ways; and we know him not Namely, perfectly. Though we see something of him in his works, it is but little in comparison of that which is in him. He is incomprehensibly great in his essence, in his attributes, in his works, and in his ways; and therefore be not so inconsiderate and rash, O Job, as to censure those of his dispensations which thou canst not fully... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:27-28

Job 36:27-28. For he maketh small, &c. Having affirmed that God’s works are incomprehensibly great and glorious, he now proves it from the most common works of nature and providence. And hence he leaves it to Job to consider how much more deep and inconceivable the secret counsels of God must be. The drops of water He orders matters so wisely, that the waters which are in the clouds do not fall down at once in spouts, which would be pernicious to the earth and to mankind, but by... read more

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