Job 36

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:8

Job 36:8 And if [they be] bound in fetters, [and] be holden in cords of affliction; Ver. 8. And if they be bound in fetters ] If it so happens, that through abuse of their prosperity and preferment, they wander, as they are men, out of the right way, and God sends out afflictions as his pursuivants to attack them, and lay them in cold irons for their correction, and to prevent judgment, Psalms 107:10 . And be holden in cords of affliction ] Or poverty; so that irretiti funibus misere... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:9

Job 36:9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. Ver. 9. Then he showeth them their work ] By these sharp waters he cleareth up their eyesight, and gives them to see their sin, the mother of their misery. Vexatio dat intellectum, Smart makes wit. Manasseh, for instance, and the prodigal, and King Croesus, with his Nocumenta documenta, and Tullus Hostilius, with his excess of devotion, when once he had paid for his learning (Herodot. lib. 1. Liv.... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:10

Job 36:10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. Ver. 10. He openeth also their ear to discipline ] See on Job 33:16 . And commandeth that they return from iniquity ] Unless they will have it to be their ruin; whereof obstinate sinners, who refuse to return, seem to be ambitious. Affliction sanctified is Lex practica, a practical law, saith one; it is Verus Scripturae commentarius, an excellent comment upon the Scripture, saith another. David... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:11

Job 36:11 If they obey and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. Ver. 11. If they obey and serve him, they shall, &c. ] Heb. they shall finish, they shall spend and end their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure, as Joseph, Job, and some others have done, who lived and died with glory. Howbeit this promise is to be understood with exception of the cross, which yet God both can, and to his will, make profitable and pleasant; as he... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:12

Job 36:12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge. Ver. 12. But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword ] In gladium transibunt, they shall pass away by the sword; that is, some evil end shall befall them, and worthily, because they would not be warned, which is both a presage and desert of utter ruin. Lesser and lighter judgments (where they work not) are foretokens of greater and heavier at the heels of them; as the black horse... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:13

Job 36:13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them. Ver. 13. But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath ] Or, Yet; or, Howbeit: q.d. These foul sinners, that have turned repentance into a form, and converted conversion itself into sin, though they see bad men made good and good men made better by their afflictions, and incorrigible persons destroyed before their eyes, yet they amend not by God’s hand upon them, but are the worse for it; as iron grows more... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:14

Job 36:14 They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean. Ver. 14. They die in youth ] They die before their time, as Solomon expresseth it; then, when it were better for them to do anything than to die, for they are killed with death, as Jezebel’s children were, Revelation 2:20-23 . Their soul dieth, as the Hebrew here hath it. Their soul perisheth among the boys, their life among the Sodomites, as Beza translateth this text, and thus paraphraseth. Therefore as accursed before God... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:15

Job 36:15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. Ver. 15. He delivereth the poor in his affliction ] Oft in this life, as he did David signally, Psalms 34:6 , "This poor man" (meaning himself) "cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles." So he pulled Paul out of the mouth of the lion; yea, and the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, "and preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom," 2 Timothy 4:18 , where the saints shall be... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:16

Job 36:16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness. Ver. 16. Even so would he have removed thee, &c. ] Thesin revocat ad hypothesin. Here Elihu applieth to Job that which he had more generally discoursed concerning godly men’s afflictions turned to their greatest good, if they be careful to improve the same. Heb. He would have persuaded, or gently removed... read more

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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 36:17

Job 36:17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold [on thee]. Ver. 17. But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked ] But thou contrariwise blusterest against God, and blurtest out such words, that thou seemest to be as bad as the worst, and to have little or no goodness in thee. See Job 34:8 . It is a shame to God’s holy people to symbolize with the wicked, to be carnal in their speeches or carriages, and to walk as men, 2 Corinthians 3:3 . They... read more

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