Job 36

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 36:5

Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom. Despiseth — His greatness doth not make him (as it doth men) despise, or oppress the meanest.Wisdom — His strength is guided by wisdom, and therefore cannot do any thing unbecoming God, or unjust to his creatures. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 36:6

He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor. But — He will certainly in his time deliver his oppressed ones. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 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.He — Never ceases to care for and watch over them.Exalted — They continue to be exalted; they are not cast down from their dignity, as the wicked commonly are. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 36:8

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;If — Through the vicissitude of worldly affairs, they are brought from their throne into a prison, as sometimes hath been done. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 36:9

Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.Work — Their evil works, by these afflictions he brings them to a sight of their sins.Exceeded — That they have greatly sinned by abusing their power and prosperity; which even good men are too prone to do. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 36:10

He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.Openeth — He inclines them to hearken to what God speaks by the rod. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 36:13

But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.Cry not — Unto God for help.Bindeth — With the cords of affliction. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 36:14

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.Die — They provoke God to cut them off before their time.Unclean — Or, Sodomites; to whose destruction, he may allude. They shall die by some exemplary stroke of Divine vengeance. Yea, and after death, their life is among the unclean, the unclean spirits, the devil and his angels, for ever excluded from the new Jerusalem, into which no unclean thing shall enter. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Job 36:15

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.Openeth — Causeth them to hear, and understand, and do, the will of God. read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 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.He would — If thou hadst opened thine ear to God's counsels.Into — A state of ease and freedom. read more

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