Chapter 36:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
Job 36
Concise Complete
Elihu desires Job's attention. (1-4) The methods in which
God deals with men. (5-14) Elihu counsels Job. (15-23) The wonders in the works
of creation. (24-33)
Verses 1-4 Elihu only
maintained that the affliction was sent for his trial; and lengthened because
Job was not yet thoroughly humbled under it. He sought to ascribe righteousness
to his Maker; to clear this truth, that God is righteous in all his ways. Such
knowledge must be learned from the word and Spirit of God, for naturally we are
estranged from it. The fitness of Elihu's discourse to the dispute between Job
and his friends is plain. It pointed out to Job the true reason of those trials
with which he had been pointed out to Job the true reason of those trials with
which he had been visited. It taught that God had acted in mercy towards him,
and the spiritual benefit he was to derive from them. It corrected the mistake
of his friends, and showed that Job's calamities were for good.
Verses 5-14 Elihu
here shows that God acts as righteous Governor. He is always ready to defend
those that are injured. If our eye is ever toward God in duty, his eye will be
ever upon us in mercy, and, when we are at the lowest, will not overlook us. God
intends, when he afflicts us, to discover past sins to us, and to bring them to
our remembrance. Also, to dispose our hearts to be taught: affliction makes
people willing to learn, through the grace of God working with and by it. And
further, to deter us from sinning for the future. It is a command, to have no
more to do with sin. If we faithfully serve God, we have the promise of the life
that now is, and the comforts of it, as far as is for God's glory and our good:
and who would desire them any further? We have the possession of inward
pleasures, the great peace which those have that love God's law. If the
affliction fail in its work, let men expect the furnace to be heated till they
are consumed. Those that die without knowledge, die without grace, and are
undone for ever. See the nature of hypocrisy; it lies in the heart: that is for
the world and the flesh, while perhaps the outside seems to be for God and
religion. Whether sinners die in youth, or live long to heap up wrath, their
case is dreadful. The souls of the wicked live after death, but it is in
everlasting misery.
Verses 15-23 Elihu
shows that Job caused the continuance of his own trouble. He cautions him not to
persist in frowardness. Even good men need to be kept to their duty by the fear
of God's wrath; the wisest and best have enough in them to deserve his stroke.
Let not Job continue his unjust quarrel with God and his providence. And let us
never dare to think favourably of sin, never indulge it, nor allow ourselves in
it. Elihu thinks Job needed this caution, he having chosen rather to gratify his
pride and humour by contending with God, than to mortify them by submitting, and
accepting the punishment. It is absurd for us to think to teach Him who is
himself the Fountain of light, truth, knowledge, and instruction. He teaches by
the Bible, and that is the best book; teaches by his Son, and he is the best
Master. He is just in all proceedings.
Verses 24-33 Elihu
endeavours to fill Job with high thought of God, and so to persuade him into
cheerful submission to his providence. Man may see God's works, and is capable
of discerning his hand in them, which the beasts are not, therefore they ought
to give him the glory. But while the worker of iniquity ought to tremble, the
true believer should rejoice. Children should hear with pleasure their Father's
voice, even when he speaks in terror to his enemies. There is no light but there
may be a cloud to intercept it. The light of the favour of God, the light of his
countenance, the most blessed light of all, even that light has many a cloud.
The clouds of our sins cause the Lord to his face, and hinder the light of his
loving-kindness from shining on our souls.
Chapter 36:
| Darby
| Geneva
| Gill
| Jamieson Faussett Brown
| Matthew Henry
| Matthew Henry Concise
| Wesley
| Index
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Esther Psalms
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
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Ruth
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1 Kings
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1 Chronicles
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Esther
Job
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Song of Solomon
Isaiah
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1 Timothy
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Titus
Philemon
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James
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