Job 35:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. ”

• Job 35:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Therefore - In view of all that Elihu had now said, be came to the conclusion that the views of Job were erroneous, and that he had no just cause of complaint. He had suffered no more than he had...

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• Job 35:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Therefore doth Job (h) open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. (h) For if he punished you as you deserved, you would not be able to open your mouth.

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• Job 35:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Men cry out by reason of oppression, but do not inquire after God, who gives songs in the night and makes us wiser than the animals. They cry because of the pride of evil men, but God does not answer...

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• Job 35:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain - God will execute vengeance when it may best serve the ends of his justic...

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• Job 35:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. Apodosis to 15. In vain - rashly. Remarks: (1) God can have no possible inducement to act with injustic...

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• Job 35:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Speeches of Elihu (continued) 1-8. Elihu ( Job 34:9 ) had charged Job with saying that there was no advantage in being righteous. He now deals with this assertion.

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• Job 35:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVI. THE DIVINE PREROGATIVE Job 35:1-16 ; Job 36:1-33 ; Job 37:1-24 AFTER a long digression Elihu returns to consider the statement ascribed to Job, "It profiteth a man nothing that he shou...

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• Job 35:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Songs in the Night Job 35:1-16 God is so exalted above man in His nature that He is altogether independent of him. When men sin against Him, they hurt not Him but themselves. There is no motive...

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• Job 35:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Turning to the second quotation, Elihu suggested that when Job questioned the advantage of serving God, he set up his righteousness as being "more than God's." He then laid bare the very foundations...

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• Job 35:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (16) Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. REFLECTIONS MY soul, here is a new field opened for thy further improvement in this highly finished reasoning...

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• Job 35:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain ,.... In uttering such unbecoming expressions, observed, and refuted, in his loud complaints of God, and of his dealings with him, and in defence of himself...

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• Job 35:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. Ver. 16. Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain ] Dilatat, divaricat, rictum diducit ut bellua. An open mout...

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• Job 35:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  But now, because it is not so That is, because Job doth not acknowledge God's justice and his own sins, and wait upon God in a proper way for mercy; he hath visited in his anger God hath laid gri...

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• Job 35:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Elihu had spoken of God's testing Job (ch.34:36), and in this chapter provides what is true of God's test of mankind. It is clearly connected with chapter 34, but is distinct also, for chapter 34 dea...

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• Job 35:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.   15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knowe...

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• Job 35:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Therefore; hence it is manifest. Open his mouth in vain, i.e. pour forth his complaints without any success, and gets no ease by them. He multiplieth words without knowledge, thereby discoverin...

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• Job 35:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ELIHU’S THIRD SPEECH After a second pause, and no reply, Elihu again resumes. Renews his reproof of Job, and attempts to answer some of his cavils. Job 35:1 .—“Elihu spake moreover,” &c....

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• Job 35:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 35:2 . My righteousness is more than God's. The LXX react as the Hebrew, “Thou saidest, I am righteous before God.” Elihu makes too strong an inference from Job's words, when he said, Job 33:...

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• Job 35:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 35:1-18 In this short chapter, once more Elihu addresses himself to Job, first (verses 1-8) answering his complaint that a life of righteousness has brought him no correspond...

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• Job 35:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Reasons For God's Delay in Helping Suffering

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• Job 35:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 3:1 ; Job 33:2 ; Job 33:8-12 ; Job 34:35-37 ; Job 38:2

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• Job 35:16 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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