Job 36:2-21 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 36:1-4

Once more Elihu begs the patience of the auditory, and Job's particularly, for he has not said all that he has to say, but he will not detain them long. Stand about me a little (so some read it), Job 36:2. ?Let me have your attendance, your attention, awhile longer, and I will speak but this once, as plainly and as much to the purpose as I can.? To gain this he pleads, 1. That he had a good cause, and a noble and very fruitful subject: I have yet to speak on God's behalf. He spoke as an... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 36:5-14

Elihu, being to speak on God's behalf, and particularly to ascribe righteousness to his Maker, here shows that the disposals of divine Providence are all, not only according to the eternal counsels of his will, but according to the eternal rules of equity. God acts as a righteous governor, for, I. He does not think it below him to take notice of the meanest of his subjects, nor does poverty or obscurity set any at a distance from his favour. If men are mighty, they are apt to look with a... read more

Matthew Henry

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 36:2

Suffer me a little ,.... Bear with me a little longer, and allow me to say a few words more. I have but little more to say, and it will take but a little time to say it in; thus, proposing brevity, he hoped to be heard with patience, since he should not long trespass upon it. The word used has the signification of a crown; but not to be understood in the sense of surrounding, as a crown surrounds the head, as some, who interpret it, stand about me, surround me, in order to hear; for this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:3

I will fetch my knowledge from afar ,.... Not from himself; for it is but a small share of knowledge that a man gets of himself, or attains to by the light of nature, and especially concerning God and divine things; but from others, either from persons that lived in former ages, and in foreign countries; it being usual for men desirous of acquiring knowledge to travel into distant parts for it; and such were generally much esteemed of, and the knowledge they professed to have got and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:4

For truly my words shall not be false ,.... But strictly true; he would take the utmost care to say nothing but the truth, with the greatest impartiality and sincerity, so that what was said might be depended upon; truth spoken briefly, clearly, and on so important a subject as the righteousness of God, deserved attention; he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee ; meaning either God, whose knowledge is perfect, who knows all persons and things; knows himself, his nature,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:5

Behold, God is mighty ,.... This is a clear plain truth, easy to be discerned, and worthy of notice, and therefore introduced with a "behold"; that God is mighty, the most mighty, the Almighty, as appears from his works of nature and providence; making all things out of nothing, upholding them by the word of his power, and governing and overruling all things in the world, and doing in it whatever he pleases: and from the works of redemption and grace; ransoming his people out of the hands... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:6

He preserveth not the life of the wicked ,.... He makes a difference between wicked and righteous men, which shows him to be a holy and righteous God; though he preserves the life of all men so long as they live, yet not in the same way; he preserves the lives of wicked men in the common course of his providence, but not in a special way and manner, as he does the lives of the righteous, which are dear and precious to him; nor does he preserve to any great length such as are notorious... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:7

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous ,.... His eyes of providence are upon them to supply their temporal wants, and to protect and defend them from their enemies, and they are never off of them; his eyes of love, grace, and mercy, are upon them; he always viewed them as righteous in his Son, and through his righteousness imputed; and looked upon them with delight and pleasure, and always so views them; they are engraven on his heart and on his hands, and are ever before him, and in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:8

And if they be bound in fetters ,.... Not the wicked, as the Targum, but the righteous spoken of in Job 36:7 , with which this is closely connected; and this is not to be understood of righteous kings on the throne in particular, or their special favourites, but of the righteous in general; and not in a literal sense, of their bonds and imprisonment for religion and righteousness sake, which is sometimes their lot; but in a figurative sense, of afflictions, as chastenings and corrections... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 36:1-4

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 36:5-14

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 36:8

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