Job 36

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 36:21

Job 36:21Take heed; regard not iniquity; for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. Affliction better than sinElihu rebukes Job with a becoming dignity, for some rash and unadvised speeches which the severity of his other friends, and the sharpness of his own anguish, had drawn from him, and particularly cautions him in the passage before us. Illustrate and prove the general proposition, that there can be no greater folly than to seek to escape from affliction by complying with the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 36:22

Job 36:22Who teacheth like Him?--Like whom? you ask. Like Him who is the great Teacher and Enlightener of the Church--even God, the Holy Spirit. This question is a sort of challenge to us to point out any teacher equal to the Lord. In what points does the teaching of God the Holy Spirit exceed all other teaching? Consider I. The nature of His instructions. There are many valuable things, no doubt, which man’s wisdom has to teach. But look--1. At the amazing nature of the facts which the Spirit... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 36:26-27

Job 36:26-27God is great, and we know Him not.The knowledge of GodThese words recall the supreme questions which divide hostile philosophies. Even Christian apologists have maintained that God is inaccessible to human thought, and that our highest knowledge of Him can have only a relative truth. Many who are antagonistic to the. Christian faith maintain that man’s knowledge is necessarily limited to the universe of phenomena, and that all attempts to pass beyond it are the result of an... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:1

Job 36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said, Ver. 1. Elihu also proceeded and said ] Heb. And Elihu added, viz. this his fourth oration, not unlike the former, made in behalf and for defence of God’s justice, which he here further asserteth against Job (who had seemed to cast some slur upon it) by arguments drawn from his wondrous works, the meteors especially; and all to prevail with Job to submit to God’s justice and to implore his mercy, Ex abundanti quae sequuntur adiecit. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:2

Job 36:2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that [I have] yet to speak on God’s behalf. Ver. 2. Suffer me a little, and I will show thee ] He promiseth brevity and thereby wooeth attention: brevity and perspicuity are two great graces of speech, and do very much win upon intelligent hearers, who love to hear much in few, and cannot away with tedious prolixities. When a great trifler had made an empty discourse in the presence of Aristotle, and then cried him mercy for troubling him so... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:3

Job 36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. Ver. 3. I will fetch my knowledge from afar ] Even from heaven, as one taught of God; I will discourse of ancient things (for τα καινα κενα ), and fetch my reasons from the wonderful and sublime works of God, De arduis atque admirandis Dei operibus, those real demonstrations of his Deity. Est autem plane hic Elihu mirus et egregius, saith Mercer. And he is not a little wronged by that French Paraphrast,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:4

Job 36:4 For truly my words [shall] not [be] false: he that is perfect in knowledge [is] with thee. Ver. 4. For truly my words shall not be false ] I shall deal truly and plainly with thee; my discourse shall be simple and solid, having no better ornament but that of truth; which is like our first parents, most beautiful when naked: it was sin covered them, it is treachery hides this. Aperta veritas clausos etiam oculos ferit, saith one. He that is perfect in knowledge is with thee ] ... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:5

Job 36:5 Behold, God [is] mighty, and despiseth not [any: he is] mighty in strength [and] wisdom. Ver. 5. Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any ] Much less oppresseth he any one in a good cause, or tyrannically abuseth his power to the crushing of an innocent. He is equally good as great; neither was Job well advised in seeming to sunder these two excellencies in God, the one from the other; since whatsoever is in God is God; neither ought we to think of him otherwise than of one not to... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:6

Job 36:6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor. Ver. 6. He preserveth not the life of the wicked ] He is no such friend to them; though he be good to the godly, be greatly careth not what becomes of them. Their life they hold of him, and many good things besides; for he is the Saviour, or preserver, of all men, but especially of them that believe. But he suffereth not the wicked to live, as the Hebrew here hath it, he withdraweth them not from the hand of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:7

Job 36:7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings [are they] on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted. Ver. 7. He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous ] He is so lost in love, as I may say, toward such that he cannot like to look beside them; he beholdeth them when afflicted with singular care and complacency. Then, if ever, the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears open to their cry, Psalms 34:15 ; then they may... read more

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