Job 36:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. ”

• Job 36:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I will fetch my knowledge from afar - What I say shall not be mere commonplace. It shall be the result of reflection on subjects that lie out of the ordinary range of thought. The idea is, that h...

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• Job 36:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  I will fetch (a) my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. (a) He shows that when we speak of God, we must lift our spirits higher than our natural sense is able to reach.

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• Job 36:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Elihu has yet words to utter for God. By a wide survey he will establish the righteousness of his Maker. All that Elihu says is true and his knowledge perfect.

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• Job 36:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. I will fetch my knowledge from afar - למרחוק lemerachok, "from the distant place," meaning probably both remote antiqu...

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• Job 36:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. From afar - not trite commonplaces, but drawn from God's mighty works. Ascribe righteousness - whereas Job...

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• Job 36:3 - 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 36:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I will fetch my knowledge from afar. — But is not this what Bildad had said before him? ( Job 8:8 , &c.); and yet the teaching of Job 36:6 is not very different from his.

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• Job 36:3 - 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 36:3 - 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 36:3 - 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 36:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ Elihu also proceeded, and said, (2) Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf. (3) I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness t...

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• Job 36:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I will fetch my knowledge from afar ,.... Not from himself; for it is but a small share of knowledge that a man gets of himself, or attains to by the light of nature, and especially concerning God a...

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• Job 36:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. Ver. 3. I will fetch my knowledge from afar ] Even from heaven, as one taught of God; I will discourse of ancient t...

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• Job 36:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Suffer me a little Give me thy patient attention but a little longer, and I have done. I will show I have yet to speak on God's behalf That I have not yet said all that can be said to justify God...

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• Job 36:3 - 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 36:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Address of Elihu. B. C. 1520.       1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,   2 Suffer me a litt...

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• Job 36:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  From afar, i.e. from remote times, and places, and things. I will not confine my discourse to thy particular case, but will justify God by declaring his great and glorious works of creation and pro...

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• Job 36:3 - 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 36:3 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 36:1-3 The sinner's excuses answered. I. One excuse is that the Bible cannot be true because it represents God as unjust. It represents God as creating men and then condemning them for anothe...

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• Job 36:3 - 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 36:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Elihu also proceeded and said. The portrait of a true preacher I. The side he has to take. “I have yet to speak on God’s behalf.” Sin is a controversy with God. The true preacher has to take th...

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• Job 36:3 - 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 36:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Benevolent Purposes of Divine Justice

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• Job 36:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 8:27-40 ; Daniel 9:14 ; Daniel 9:7 ; Deuteronomy 32:4 ; James 1:17 ; James 1:5 ; James 3:17 ; Jeremiah 12:1 ; Job 28:12 ; Job 28:13 ; Job 28:20-24 ; Job 32:2 ; Job 32:8 ; Job 34:10...

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• Job 36:3 - 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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• Job 36:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Afar — From remote times, and places, and things. I will not confine my discourse to thy particular case, but wilt justify God by declaring his great and glorious works of creation and providence b...

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