“ All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. ”
All flesh shall perish together - If God chose, he would have a right to cut down the whole race. How then shall people complain of the loss of health, comforts, and friends, and presume to arrai...
perish . expire. turn again. Compare Genesis 3:19 ; Ecclesiastes 12:7 .
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; 'If He were to set His heart on man,' either to injure him, or to take strict account of his sins. The connec...
The Speeches of Elihu (continued) 1-9. Elihu appeals to his hearers to judge the matter. He protests against the complaints of Job that he was treated unjustly by God, and that it was no profit to...
XXV. POST-EXILIC WISDOM Job 32:1-22 ; Job 33:1-33 ; Job 34:1-37 A PERSONAGE hitherto unnamed in the course of the drama now assumes the place of critic and judge between Job and his friends....
the Almighty Must Be Just Job 34:1-37 Elihu stands in Job 34:10 as God's apologist. God's absolute and impartial justice is at all times a matter of untold comfort. There will be no cause of...
Job gave no answer to the challenge, and Elihu proceeded. He first appealed to the wise men, asked that they would listen in order to try his words. He then made two quotations from the things Job ha...
(13) Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? (14) If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; (15) All flesh shall per...
All flesh shall perish together ,.... Not one by one, or one after another, as they generally do, but all together; as when the flood swept away the world of the ungodly. "All flesh" signifies all m...
All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust. Ver. 15. All flesh shall perish together ] i.e. All men, called here "All flesh," as, Mark 16:16 , they are called every cre...
If he set his heart upon man Hebrew, אליו, eelaiv, upon him , meaning man, doubtless. If his eye and heart be upon man, and he diligently observe him and all his ways, and whatsoever is amiss in h...
HIS APPEAL AS TO WISE MEN (vv.1-4) Since Job had wisely refrained from speaking, Elihu makes an appeal to all his hearers, as to wise men (v.2). This reminds us of 1 Corinthians 10:15 , "I speak...
10 Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. 11 For the work of a ma...
All flesh, i.e. every man, who is called flesh , Genesis 6:3,17 Isa 40:6 . Together, or, alike , without any exception, be they great or mean, wise or foolish, good or bad; if God design to...
ELIHU’S SECOND SPEECH Probably after waiting for a reply from Job, and none being forthcoming, Elihu resumes. Job 34:1 .—“Furthermore Elihu answered (took up speech), and said”. Job’s silence p...
Job 34:1-3 . Furthermore Elihu answered and said, Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. I wish that vers...
Job 34:5 . Job hath said God hath taken away my judgment. See on Job 27:2 . Elihu, in every accusation, takes or turns Job's words in a wrong sense. Job meant that God had varied, in regard of hi...
EXPOSITION Job 34:1-18 In this chapter Elihu turns from Job to those whom he addresses as "wise men" (verse 2), or "men of understanding" (verse 10). Whether these are Job's three special f...
Proof of the Divine Righteousness
Ecclesiastes 12:7 ; Genesis 3:19 ; Isaiah 27:4 ; Isaiah 57:16 ; Job 30:23 ; Psalms 90:3-10
High Altitudes in Elihu's Answer to Job Job 32:1-22 , Job 33:1-33 ; Job 34:1-37 ; Job 35:1-16 ; Job 36:1-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We now come to that part of the Book of Job which present...
All — The design of this and the foregoing verse is the same with that of Job 34:13 , namely, to declare God's absolute and uncontrollable sovereignty over all men.