“ Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. ”
Desire not the night - That is, evidently, “the night of death.” The darkness of the night is an emblem of death, and it is not uncommon to speak of death in this manner; see John 9:4 , “The nig...
(o) Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. (o) Do not be curious in seeking the cause of God's judgments, when he destroys any.
The godless cherish angry thoughts about God's discipline they refuse to cry for God's help ( Job 36:13 ). They die young, perishing like the sodomites (those religiously consecrated to unnatural vic...
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. Desire not the night - Thou hast wished for death; (here called night); desire it not; leave that with God. If he hear thee, and send dea...
Desire not the night— Desire not the night that thou mayest oppress the afflicted, expecting nothing less: Houbigant. But Heath renders it, Wish not earnestly for the night, to descend to the lo...
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. Desire - pant for х tish'ap ( H7602 )]. Job had wished for death, ( Job 3:3-9 , etc.) Night - ( John 9:4 ). When ,...
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.
Desire not the night — i.e., of death, as Job had done ( Job 16:22 ; Job 17:13 , &c., Job 19:27 ), or as, at all events, his words might be understood. For “people,” read peoples: i.e., n...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
Desire not the night ,.... Either in a literal sense, which Job might do; not for secrecy to commit sin, as the thief, murderer, and adulterer do; Elihu had no such suspicion of Job; nor for ease an...
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. Ver. 20. Desire not the night, &c. ] That is, as some sense it, do not thou peevishly desire death, see Job 7:15 lest it come...
Desire not the night The night of death, which Job had often desired, for then thou art irrecoverably gone: take heed of thy foolish and often-repeated desire of death, lest God inflict it upon the...
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"...
15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. 16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitne...
Desire not the night; either, 1. Properly, that in it thou mayst find some ease or rest, as men usually do. But this Job did not much desire, for he complains that his nights were as restless as...
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...
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...
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...
The Benevolent Purposes of Divine Justice
1 Thessalonians 5:2 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:3 ; 2 Kings 19:35 ; Acts 1:25 ; Daniel 5:30 ; Ecclesiastes 11:3 ; Exodus 12:29 ; Job 14:13 ; Job 17:13 ; Job 17:14 ; Job 3:20 ; Job 3:21 ; Job 6:9...
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...
The night — The night of death, which Job had often desired, for then, thou art irrecoverably gone: take heed of thy foolish and often repeated desire of death, lest God inflict it upon thee in ang...