Job 36

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:5-12

Job 36:5-2 Kings : . God is mighty, yet despises none. He destroys the wicked, but watches over the righteous, exalting them to honour. If He afflicts them it is to bring home to them their sin. Thus God instructs them and teaches them repentance. If they repent they prosper, but, if not, destruction is their portion.In Job 36:5 b read “ He is mighty in strength and understanding” (Ley). In Job 36:7 read “ his sight” with LXX instead of “ his eyes.” read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:13-21

Job 36:13-Ecclesiastes : . 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; see Deuteronomy 23:17). God saves the afflicted by his affliction, and opens their ear by adversity (following in Job 36:15 b mg. instead of text). So God would have dealt with Job ( Job 36:16). As it is, Job is visited by the Divine judgment ( Job 36:17). Let not... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:22-26

Job 36:22-Ezekiel : . God is great— who can teach like Him? Can man command or criticise Him? Man’ s part is to magnify his work in psalms, though only beholding it from afar, and unable to comprehend it. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:27-33

Job 36:27-Micah : . God draws up the water-drops and lets them fall in rain. Who can understand the distribution of the clouds, the thunders which fill the cloud where He dwells? ( cf. Psalms 18:11). He is surrounded with light ( Job 36:30). By the thunderstorm He judges the peoples and supplies humanity with food (by the fertilising rain). He fills His hands with the lightning and sends it home to its mark. Job 36:30 b is unintelligible. Budde reads, “ and the roots of the sea He lays bare.”... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36

JOB CHAPTER 36 God is first in all his ways; towards the wicked, Job 36:1-6, the godly, Job 36:7-11, the hypocrite, Job 36:12-14, the poor, Job 36:15. Job’s sins hindered God’s salvation to him: he admonisheth him, Job 36:16-21. God’s power, and sovereignty, and all his perfections to be magnified, Job 36:22-33. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36:2

Suffer me a little; give me thy patient attention but a little longer; and I will show thee that I have not said all that can be said to justify God’s proceedings against thee. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36:3

From afar, i.e. from remote times, and places, and things. I will not confine my discourse to thy particular case, but will justify God by declaring his great and glorious works of creation and providence, both in the heaven and earth, and the manner of his dealing with men in other parts and ages of the world; for these are the chief heads of the following discourse, and therefore the best comment upon this general expression. I will acknowledge that which is true, that God is righteous. He... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36:4

I will not speak any thing against my own conscience, nor against truth, either to flatter God, or to vex thee, as thou supposest thy other friends have done, Job 13:7, and elsewhere. He that is perfect in knowledge is with thee. This is meant either, 1. Of God. Thou hast to do with a God of perfect knowledge, by whom all Shy words and actions. are weighed; and therefore hast need to be more wary and circumspect in thy expressions and behaviour. Or rather, 2. Of himself, as the former part of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36:5

His greatness doth not make him (as it doth men) to scorn, or despise, or oppress the meanest. Though he may do what he pleaseth, and none can hinder him, yet he will not use it to do any man wrong, as Job seemed to insinuate, Job 10:3; Job 19:7; Job 23:13. His strength is guided by wisdom, and therefore cannot be employed to do any thing unbecoming God, or unjust to his creatures; for either of these is folly. Or, in strength, or virtue of heart; for the and is not in the Hebrew. So the sense... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36:6

He preserveth not the life of the wicked, to wit, for ever; but will in his due time forsake them, and give them up to the destroyer. Or, he doth not or will not preserve, is put for he will certainly and dreadfully destroy, by the figure called meiosis, used Proverbs 17:21, and oft elsewhere. Giveth right to the poor; he doth uphold, and he certainly will in his time deliver, his poor oppressed ones from all their oppressors. read more

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