Job 33:8-33 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 33:8-13

In these verses, I. Elihu particularly charges Job with some indecent expressions that had dropped from him, reflecting upon the justice and goodness of God in his dealings with him. He does not ground the charge upon report, but was himself an ear-witness of what he here reproves him for (Job 33:8): ?Thou hast spoken it in my hearing, and in the hearing of all this company.? He had it not at second hand; if so, he would have hoped it was not so bad as it was represented. He did not hear it... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 33:14-18

Job had complained that God kept him wholly in the dark concerning the meaning of his dealings with him, and therefore concluded he dealt with him as his enemy. ?No,? says Elihu, ?he speaks to you, but you do not perceive him; so that the fault is yours, not his; and he is designing your real good even in those dispensations which you put this harsh construction upon.? Observe in general, 1. What a friend God is to our welfare: He speaketh to us once, yea, twice, Job 33:14. It is a token of... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 33:19-28

God has spoken once to sinners by their own consciences, to keep them from the paths of the destroyer, but they perceive it not; they are not aware that the checks their own hearts give them in a sinful way are from God, but they are imputed to melancholy or the preciseness of their education; and therefore God speaks twice; he speaks a second time, and tries another way to convince and reclaim sinners, and that is by providences, afflictive and merciful (in which he speaks twice), and by the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 33:29-33

We have here the conclusion of this first part of Elihu's discourse, in which, 1. He briefly sums up what he had said, showing that God's great and gracious design, in all the dispensations of his providence towards the children of men, is to save them from being for ever miserable and bring them to be for ever happy, Job 33:29, 30. All these things God is working with the children of men. He deals with them by conscience, by providences, by ministers, by mercies, by afflictions. He makes them... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 33:8

Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing ,.... After the above preface, Elihu proceeds to the point in hand, and enters a charge against Job; which he took up, not upon suspicion and surmisings, nor upon report, nor upon accusations received from others, but what he had heard with his own ears, unless he was greatly mistaken indeed, which he thought he was not: and I have heard the voice of thy words ; the sound of them, clearly and distinctly, and took in the sense of them, as he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 33:9

I am clean without transgression ,.... This with what follows is supposed to be gathered from Job 10:6 ; for this is nowhere said by Job in express words; though I rather think, since Elihu so peremptorily affirms that they were spoken in his hearing, that these words and the following did drop from Job's lips, in the controversy with his friends, though not recorded; for we are not to suppose that everything that was said on both sides is preserved, only so much as the Holy Ghost thought... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 33:10

Behold, he findeth occasions against me ,.... That is, sought in order to find them; so Job in some places suggests, that God inquired after his sins, and sought diligently after them, that he might have something to bring against him; and because he could not find great sins, gross enormities, he sought after lesser sins; so some render the word, "staggerings", "totterings" F8 תנואות "vacillationes", Cocceius; "aut mutationes", Michaelis. ; frailties, failings, and infirmities; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 33:11

He putteth my feet in the stocks ,.... This also he had said, Job 13:27 ; by which he would suggest not only that his afflictions were painful and disgraceful, and from which he could not extricate himself, being close fettered by them; but that they were inflicted on him as punishments, and he was treated as a criminal, as a malefactor, who had been guilty of some notorious breach of the law: he marketh all my paths ; looked narrowly at them, numbered and counted them; this also he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 33:12

Behold, in this thou art not just ,.... Here begins Elihu's answer, who does not deny that Job was a just man, both before God in an evangelic sense, and before men in a moral sense; he did not go about to detract from Job's general character, as a man that lived soberly, righteously, and godly in the world; but in this he was not just, nor is it to be justified, with respect to this thing, he could not acquit him of doing what was wrong; namely, insisting so much on his own innocence, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 33:13

Why dost thou strive against him ?.... A creature against the Creator, a man against his Maker, the clay against the potter; how absurd and stupid is this! and a piece of weakness and folly it was in him to desire to litigate the point with God, and dispute with him, as he often did, when men cannot answer him one of a thousand, as he himself owned, Job 9:3 ; and very sinful and criminal it is to chide with God, or complain of him, on account of any of his dealings with the sons of men, as... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 33:8-13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 33:14-18

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 33:19-28

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 33:29-33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 33:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 33:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 33:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 33:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 33:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 33:13

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