욥기 36:18-26 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 36:15-23

Elihu here comes more closely to Job; and, I. He tells him what God would have done for him before this if he had been duly humbled under his affliction. ?We all know how ready God is to deliver the poor in his affliction (Job 36:15); he always was so. The poor in spirit, those that are of a broken and contrite heart, he looks upon with tenderness, and, when they are in affliction, is ready to help them. He opens their ears, and makes them to hear joy and gladness, even in their oppressions;... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 36:24-33

Elihu is here endeavouring to possess Job with great and high thoughts of God, and so to persuade him into a cheerful submission to his providence. I. He represents the work of God, in general, as illustrious and conspicuous, Job 36:24. His whole work is so. God does nothing mean. This is a good reason why we should acquiesce in all the operations of his providence concerning us in particular. His visible works, those of nature, and which concern the world in general, are such as we admire and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:18

Because there is wrath ,.... Either wrath in Job, so some; indignation and impatience under the afflicting hand of God, expressed by cursing the day of his birth, and by his angry pleadings with God: and therefore Elihu advises him to beware of it, and check this impetuous spirit; cease from his anger and forsake wrath, and fret not himself to do evil, and provoke the Lord to take him away at once, and then his case would be irretrievable. Or rather wrath in God, which is revealed from... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:19

Will he esteem thy riches? no , not gold, nor all the forces of strength. Riches can be of no account, nor bear any weight with God; for they are of him and come from him, and what he has a right to take away and dispose of as he pleases. These cannot ward off the stroke of death, or secure from it; nor can a man possessed of them carry them with him into the other world; nor will they profit in the day of wrath. Mr. Broughton renders it, "will he esteem thy nobleness?" so Junius and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:20

Desire not the night ,.... Either in a literal sense, which Job might do; not for secrecy to commit sin, as the thief, murderer, and adulterer do; Elihu had no such suspicion of Job; nor for ease and rest, which he expected not; nor would his sores admit thereof; his nights were wearisome, and when come he wished they were gone, Job 7:2 ; but either for retirement, that he might muse and consider, and endeavour to search and find out the reason of God's dealing with men, in cutting off... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:21

Take heed, regard not iniquity ,.... Not any iniquity, as to show any approbation of it, love for it, and desire after it. All appearance of sin, of every sin, is to be abstained from; but particularly by the iniquity here meant may be the sin of impatience under his affliction; murmuring at the dealings of God with him; arraigning his justice, and saying very indecent things of him, as in Job 34:5 . Or it may mean the evil he had been guilty of in so earnestly desiring the night of death:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:22

Behold, God exalteth by his power ,.... He exalts himself, or causes himself to be exalted, and even above all the blessing and praise of his creatures; by his power, in the works of creation and providence, he makes such a display of his glorious perfections, as to set him on high, and out of the reach of the highest praises of men. He exalts his Son as Mediator, and has made him higher than the kings of the earth, 1 Timothy 2:5 ; he exalts him as a Prince and a Saviour, Acts 5:31 , to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:23

Who hath enjoined him his way ?.... He teaches men his own ways, the methods of his grace and mercy towards them; and he prescribes to them the ways in which they should walk; but none can lead or prescribe to him; as the way of governing the world, in what manner he should act in it; who has "taught him in the path of judgment?" or "showed to him the way of understanding?" Isaiah 40:14 ; and particularly whom he should afflict, in what manner he should do it, when and how long he should... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:24

Remember that thou magnify his work ,.... Or his works; his works of creation and providence, which are great in themselves, and declare the greatness of God; and which, though they cannot be made greater than they are, men may be said to magnify them when they ascribe them to God, and magnify him on account of them; when they think and speak well of them, and give glory to God: and particularly by his work may be meant the chastisement of his people, which is a rod in his hand, which he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:25

Every man may see it ,.... Not only was to be seen by the wise and learned, the just and good, but by the common people; whether it is to be understood of the works of creation, or of the afflictive providences of God in general, or of Job's afflictions in particular; man may behold it afar off ; as to time, from the creation of the world to the present time, as Jarchi; or as to place, from the heaven, so distant, where are the sun, moon, and stars; and which, though so far off, are... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 36:15-23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 36:24-33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:25

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