“ What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? ”
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? - A similar image occurs in Job 15:16 . The idea is, that he was full of reproachful speeches respecting God; of the language of irreve...
What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up (f) scorning like water? (f) Which is compelled to receive your reproach and scorns of many for his foolish words.
Elihu summons the wise men who hear him to seek a right decision. Job has accused God of injustice, when he is innocent. But in reality Job is the worst of scorners, for he denies the profit of relig...
man . strong man. Hebrew. geber. App-14.
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? Drinketh up scorning like water? - This is a repetition of the charge made against Job by Eliphaz, Job 15:16 . It is a proverbial expre...
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? ( Job 15:16 .) Image from the camel. Scorning - against God ( Job 15:4 ).
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...
Who drinketh up scorning? — The same word had been applied to Job by Zophar ( Job 11:3 ), “And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?” and the same reproach by Eliphaz ( Job 15:16 ).
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...
(1) В¶ Furthermore Elihu answered and said, (2) Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. (3) For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. (4) Let us choose...
What man [is] like Job ,.... This is said as wondering at the part he acted, that a man so wise and good as Job was esteemed to be should behave in such a manner as he did; [who] drinketh up scorn...
What man [is] like Job, [who] drinketh up scorning like water? Ver. 7. What man is like Job? ] This Elihu speaketh by way of angry admiration, as if he would make Job a very nonsuch, a matchless o...
Who drinketh up scorning like water That is, abundantly and greedily: who doth so break forth into scornful expressions, not only against his friends, but, in some sort, even against God himself. T...
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...
The Address of Elihu. B. C. 1520. 1 Furthermore Elihu answered and said, 2 Hear my wor...
i.e. Abundantly and greedily; who doth so oft and so easily break forth into scornful and contemptuous expressions, not only against his friends, but in some sort even against God himself, whom he fo...
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...
What man is like Job? Elihu’s estimate of Job It was natural that, with all his reverence for Job, Elihu should be offended by the heat and passion of his words, by the absence of moderation an...
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...
Job Accused of Falsehood and Blasphemy
Deuteronomy 29:19 ; Job 15:16 ; Proverbs 1:22 ; Proverbs 4:17
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...
Like water — Abundantly and greedily: who doth so break forth into scornful expressions, not only against his friends, but in some sort against God himself.