Job 34:21-22 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 34:22

There is no darkness - No dark cavern which can furnish a place of concealment. The guilty usually take refuge in some obscure place where people cannot detect them. But Elihu says that man has no power of concealing himself thus from God.Nor shadow of death - A phrase here signifying deep darkness; see it explained in the notes at Job 3:5.Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves - That is, where they may conceal themselves so as not to be detected by God. They may conceal themselves... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 34:20-21

Job 34:20-21. In a moment shall they die Whensoever God doth but give the word, and send his summons for them. The rich and the prince, no less than the poor, must submit to the law of death, which God hath imposed upon all men without exception. And the people shall be troubled Hebrew, יגעשׁו , jegognashu, concutientur, tremiscent, shall be shaken, shall tremble, at the approach of death, or through the calamities which God will bring upon them. Whole nations, or people, are no... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 34:22-23

Job 34:22-23. There is no darkness, &c. The workers of iniquity may flatter themselves, or deceive others, by covering their wicked actions with plausible pretences and professions, but they cannot deceive God, nor conceal their ways or hearts from his inspection. He will not lay upon man more than right More or heavier punishments than they deserve, or than are proportionable to their sins, which he accurately observes, and therefore can adapt punishments to them; that he should... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 34:1-37

The justice of God (34:1-35:16)When Job does not reply to Elihu’s challenge, Elihu turns to the onlookers and repeats some of Job’s rash statements about the injustice of God (34:1-6). Let them judge for themselves. Surely such words prove Job’s wickedness (7-9).God is not unjust, says Elihu, and no one can tell him what to do. He is the governor of the universe (10-13). He is the source of all life and, if he wished, he could bring all life to an end (14-15). God governs perfectly and shows no... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 34:22

darkness. Hebrew. hashak. See note on Job 3:6 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Job 34:21

"For his eyes are upon the ways of a man,And he seeth all his goings.There is no darkness, nor thick gloom,Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.For he needeth not further to consider a man,That he should go before God in judgment.He breaketh in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out,And setteth others in their stead.Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works;And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.He striketh them as wicked menIn the open sight of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Job 34:22

Job 34:22. There is no darkness, nor shadow of death— i.e. "Not death itself shall conceal the workers of iniquity from the eye of God, or withdraw them from his justice: Men may flatter themselves with the hope of annihilation, if they please; but they will find themselves sadly disappointed when they come to make trial of the other state." Peters. Instead of that he should enter, in the latter clause of the next verse, Heath reads, When he shall enter. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 34:21

21. God's omniscience and omnipotence enable Him to execute immediate justice. He needs not to be long on the "watch," as Job thought (Job 7:12; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Jeremiah 32:19). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 34:22

22. shadow of death—thick darkness (Amos 9:2; Amos 9:3; Psalms 139:12). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 34:1-37

3. Elihu’s second speech ch. 34Elihu, in this speech, sought to refute Job’s charge that God was unjust. He tried to answer Job’s question, "Why doesn’t God have mercy on me?" He first addressed the three friends (Job 34:10-15, plural "you" in Hebrew) and then spoke to Job (Job 34:16-27, singular "you"). In his first speech Elihu had alluded to Eliphaz’s arguments. In this one he took up Bildad’s (Job 34:2; Job 34:34). read more