Job 36

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 36:10

Job 36:10 Discipline is the art or system of learning generally any little things. It is very much the same as instruction or education. But because teaching or education is often a very hard thing, and accompanied with severity, discipline has come to be taken in a severe sense, for we generally associate it with pain and hardship. This discipline or training is among the things which God promises to the righteous. Consider the discipline of joy. I. The beauty of nature is one of the truest... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Job 36:13

DISCOURSE: 489HYPOCRISY EXPOSEDJob 36:13. The hypocrites in heart heap up wrath.SUFFERINGS are to the soul what the furnace is to gold; they serve to ascertain the measure of its purity or its corruption. If under the pressure of them we humble ourselves before God, and correct whatever we may find to have been amiss, they will promote at once the renovation of our nature, and the honour of him by whose gracious providence they are laid upon us: but, if we murmur at them, and rebel against our... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 36:1-33

Chapter 36Elihu 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 going to ascribe righteousness to my Maker. For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee ( Job 36:2-4 )"Here I am, folks." This young guy is really getting carried away. "He that is perfect in knowledge is with thee."Behold, [he said,] God is mighty,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:1-33

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 perfections of the Deity, and for models and inferences for the regulation of conduct. Job 36:6 . He preserveth not the life of the wicked. If they are multiplied and flourish like a green baytree, it is for destruction by war, or by impetuous passions. Yet there are exceptions, to show the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 36:1-4

Job 36:1-4Elihu also proceeded and said.The portrait of a true preacherI. The side he has to take. “I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.” Sin is a controversy with God. The true preacher has to take the side of God in the discussion.1. He has to defend the procedure of God. He has to justify the ways of heaven.2. He has to vindicate the character of God. The true preacher has to clear his Maker of all ungodly accusations.3. He has to enforce the claims of God. His claims to their supreme love... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 36:5

Job 36:5Behold, God is mighty and despiseth not any. The law of reverenceContempt, whether of men or of things, is a feeling that is alien to God. With Him there is no littleness; He neither spurns, nor slights, nor disregards. And the reason is that He is so mighty.I. God is great in intelligence and despiseth not. How great that intelligence is, in its reach, in its grasp, in its certainty, the Scriptures keep continually before us. He whom we worship is the “Only Wise.” God sees things not... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 36:9

Job 36:9Then He sheweth them their work, and their transgression that they have exceeded. Showing up our transgressionsI. General remarks on the text.1. Sin is properly attributable to man. It is “their work.” If God suffers moral evil to exist, He is not the author of it. Satan may tempt, but cannot constrain to the commission of sin. The whole guilt of it lies upon the offender. It first exists as simple apprehension, is then approved, and, being conceived in the heart, it brings forth actual... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 36:10

Job 36:10He openeth their ear to discipline. Discipline1. Notice the discipline which God uses in His family. Many of us are froward children and need discipline. Job needed it, and had it; we are not told why, except that God meant to try his graces, and bring them into exercise. Paul was disciplined, and if he had not been well-disciplined, he would never have been such a scholar. The first feature in God’s discipline for His family is what Paul calls, “apprehending them.” A laying fast hold... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 36:16

Job 36:16Out of the strait into a broad place.An invitation to straitened soulsWhat is literally straitness? The word “strait” means “narrow.” The place between two mountains or two seas is a strait or narrow passage. A strait implies a difficulty of choice. “I am in a strait betwixt two.” We say of a man, when he cannot pay his debts, that he is in straitened circumstances. Other countries have similar terms. In Scotland they say “pinched,” or “hampered,” in America that “he has a hard row to... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 36:18

Job 36:18Because there is wrath.The wrath of GodThe language of the text may be spoken to every impenitent and unbelieving sinner of the human race.I. The actual. “There is wrath.”1. This wrath is Divine. By virtue of God’s perfection He is in the possession of an emotional nature, He has the attribute of wrath. Instead of this property being inconsistent with the other attributes of God, it is absolutely necessary to constitute Him morally perfect. This wrath is undoubtedly a great reality.2.... read more

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