Job 36:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. ”

• Job 36:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  If they obey and serve him - That is, if, as the result of their afflictions, they repent of their sins, seek his mercy, and serve him in time to come, they shall be prospered still. The design o...

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• Job 36:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  God is mighty, yet despises none. He destroys the wicked, but watches over the righteous, exalting them to honour. If He afflicts them it is to bring home to them their sin. Thus God instructs them a...

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• Job 36:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  If they obey and serve him , they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. If they obey and serve him - There may appear in the course of Providence to be some exceptions...

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• Job 36:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. Serve - i:e. worship; as in Isaiah 19:23 God is to be supplied (cf. Isaiah 19:20 ).

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• Job 36:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Speeches of Elihu (continued) 1-15. Elihu maintains the wisdom and impartial justice of the rule of God. His purpose is to discipline and improve men, even by their afflictions.

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• Job 36:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  They shall spend their days in prosperity. — It is, perhaps, not more easy to reconcile this teaching of Elihu’s with the realities of actual fact than it is the notions of Job’s friends as to dire...

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• Job 36:11 - 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 36:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  He Despiseth not Any Job 36:1-33 God is mighty, but He does not despise thee, though thou be the least of saints. His eyes are upon thee for good, and He will set thee before His throne forever...

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• Job 36:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  After answering the arguments of Job, as expressed in the quotations, there would seem to have been a pause. Then Elihu commenced his last address. He first appealed to Job to hear him, as he was ab...

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• Job 36:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (4) For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee. (5) В¶ Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom. (6) He preserveth no...

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• Job 36:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  If they obey and serve [him] ,.... That is, God, to whom so many things are ascribed in the preceding verses; and who only is to be obeyed and served in a religious way, with the obedience of faith...

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• Job 36:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  If they obey and serve [him], they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. Ver. 11. If they obey and serve him, they shall, &c. ] Heb. they shall finish, they shall...

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• Job 36:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 36:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  SPEAKING ON GOD'S BEHALF (vv.1-4) Elihu continues in the same strain, for as he says, there is much more to be said on God's behalf. Where did Elihu find his knowledge? He fetched it "from afar"...

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• Job 36:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        5 Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.   6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.   7 He withdraweth not h...

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• Job 36:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  If they obey God's admonition and command. They shall spend their days in prosperity; they shall be restored to their farmer prosperity, and shall live and die in it. This he speaks according to...

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• Job 36:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH No reply being made to Elihu’s preceding address, he resumes. Job 36:1 .—“Elihu also proceded and said”. His object to bring Job to a more becoming state of mind in refere...

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• Job 36:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 36:3 . I will fetch my knowledge from afar; from the expanse of heaven, and from the remotest traditions of the sires. Natural theology is very instructive to man, to acquaint us with the perf...

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• Job 36:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 36:1-18 The two chapters, Job 36:1-18 ; Job 37:1-18 , form a single discourse, and ought not to have been separated; or, at any rate, not so unskilfully as they are, in the...

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• Job 36:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Benevolent Purposes of Divine Justice

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• Job 36:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 4:30 ; Ecclesiastes 9:2 ; Ecclesiastes 9:3 ; Hebrews 11:8 ; James 5:5 ; Jeremiah 26:13 ; Jeremiah 7:23 ; Job 11:13-19 ; Job 21:11 ; Job 22:21 ; Job 22:23 ; Job 42:12 ; Revela...

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• Job 36:11 - 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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