Job 36:15-23

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:15

He delivereth the poor in his affliction ,.... The righteous or godly poor; who are not only poor in worldly things, but poor in spirit; who are humbled, brought low, and made contrite, through the afflicting hand of God: these, though the Lord does sooner or later deliver "out" of their afflictions, yet that is not intended here, but a deliverance "in" them; which is done by supporting them under them, by supplying them with his grace to bear them patiently, by granting them his gracious... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:16

Even so ,.... Here Elihu accommodates what he had said to the case of Job; that had he hearkened and been obedient to the voice of God in his rod, and had submitted to his chastening hand, and patiently bore his afflictions; he , God, would have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness : that is, out of the strait circumstances in which he was, into liberty; would have brought him into a large place, where he might walk at liberty, as David... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:17

But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked ,.... Some F23 Schmidt, Michaelis. take this to be a continuation of the happiness Job would have enjoyed, had he behaved in his affliction as he ought to have done; then he would have been filled to satisfaction, by seeing the judgments of God exercised on wicked men, as on the Chaldeans and Sabeans, who had injured him: "and judgment and justice would have upheld thee"; when they should be cast down. But these words rather seem to be... 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

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