Job 36:2-21 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 36:19

Will he esteem thy riches? - That is God will not regard thy riches as a reason why he should not cut you off, or as a ransom for your forfeited life. The reference here must be to the fact that Job “had been” a rich man, and the meaning is, either that God would not spare him because he “had been” a rich man, or that if he had now all the wealth which he once possessed, it would not be sufficient to be a ransom for his life.Nor all the forces of his strength - Not all that gives power and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 36:20

Desire not the night - That is, evidently, “the night of death.” The darkness of the night is an emblem of death, and it is not uncommon to speak of death in this manner; see John 9:4, “The night cometh, when no man can work.” Elihu seems to have supposed that Job might have looked forward to death as to a time of release; that so far from “dreading” what he had said would come, that God would cut him off at a stroke, it might be the very thing which he desired, and which he anticipated would... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 36:21

Take heed, regard not iniquity - That is, be cautious that in the view which you take of the divine government, and the sentiments which you express, you do not become the advocate of iniquity. Elihu apprehended this from the remarks in which he had indulged, and regarded him as having become the advocate of the same sentiments which the wicked held, and as in fact manifesting the same spirit. It is well to put a man who is afflicted on his guard against this, when he attempts to reason about... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:2-4

Job 36:2-4. Suffer me a little Give me thy patient attention but a little longer, and I have done. I will show I have yet to speak on God’s behalf That I have not yet said all that can be said to justify God’s dispensations toward thee. I will fetch my knowledge from afar From remote times, and places, and things. I will not confine my discourse to any particular case, but will justify God by declaring his great and glorious works of creation and providence, both in the heaven and the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:5

Job 36:5. God is mighty, and despiseth not any His greatness doth not cause him (as the greatness of men causeth them) to despise or oppress such as are mean. He is mighty in strength and wisdom His strength is guided by wisdom, and therefore cannot be employed to do any thing unbecoming him, or unjust toward his creatures, either of which would be an instance of folly. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:6-7

Job 36:6-7. He preserveth not the life of the wicked Namely, for ever: but will in due time forsake them, and give them up to the destroyer. Ab. Ezra interprets it, The years of the wicked shall be shortened. But giveth right to the poor He upholds, and will certainly, at the proper time, deliver his poor, oppressed ones, from all their oppressors. He will avenge their quarrel upon their persecutors, and force them to make restitution of what they have unjustly robbed them of. For if men... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:8-10

Job 36:8-10. If they be bound in fetters If, through the vicissitude of worldly affairs, they are brought from their throne into a prison, as sometimes hath been done. Then he showeth them their work Their evil works: by these afflictions he brings them to a sight of their sins; that then have exceeded That they have greatly sinned by abusing their power and prosperity, which even good men are too prone to do. He openeth also, &c. He inclines them to hearken to what God speaks by... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:11-12

Job 36:11-12. If they obey God’s admonition and command; they shall spend their days in prosperity They shall be restored to their former prosperity, and shall live and die in it. This he says according to the tenor of God’s promises, especially in the Old Testament state of the church, and according to the common course of God’s providence in those days, which Elihu and other good men had observed; and their years in pleasures Abounding in worldly comforts, and delighting themselves in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:13-14

Job 36:13-14. But the hypocrites in heart Such as are truly void of that piety which they profess; heap up wrath By their impenitence and obstinacy in all conditions they treasure up God’s wrath against themselves; they cry not Unto God for help. They live in the gross neglect of God and of prayer; when he bindeth them Namely, with the cords of affliction expressed Job 36:8, which is mentioned as an aggravation of their wickedness; because even wicked men, if not hardened in their... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:15-16

Job 36:15-16 . And openeth their ears That is, causeth them to hear, and understand, and do the will of God; hearing being often put for obeying; in oppression That is, in the time of their oppression; or, by oppression, or tribulation, as the means of opening their ears and hearts. He will not deliver all afflicted persons, but only those whose ears he openeth to receive his counsels. Even so would he have removed thee If thou hadst opened thine ear to God’s counsels, humbled... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 36:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 36:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 36:21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:2-4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:6-7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:8-10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:11-12

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:13-14

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 36:15-16

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