Job 36:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. ”

• Job 36:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Then he showeth them their work - What their lives have been. This he does either by a messenger sent to them Job 33:23 , or by their own reflections Job 33:27 , or by the influences of his Spi...

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• Job 36:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Then he sheweth them their (f) work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. (f) He will move their hearts to feel their sins that they may come to him by repentance as he did Manasseh.

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• Job 36:9 - 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 36:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  transgressions. Hebrew. pasha'. App-44.

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• Job 36:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. He showeth them their work - He shows them the exceeding sinfulness of sin. That they have exceeded - יתגברו yithga...

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• Job 36:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  That they have exceeded— How they have set him at defiance. Heath.

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• Job 36:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; If they be afflicted, it is no proof that they are hypocrites, as the friends maintain; or that God disregards them, and...

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• Job 36:9 - 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 36:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Then he sheweth them their work. — The true nature of their conduct and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly. This is Elihu’s special doctrine, that God’s chastisements a...

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• Job 36:9 - 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 36:9 - 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 36:9 - 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 36:9 - 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 36:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then he showeth them their work ,.... Either what they ought to do, so the Tigurine version; and which they have not done, their sins of omission; when they have been negligent either of the duty of...

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• Job 36:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. Ver. 9. Then he showeth them their work ] By these sharp waters he cleareth up their eyesight, and gives them to...

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• Job 36:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If they be bound in fetters If, through the vicissitude of worldly affairs, they are brought from their throne into a prison, as sometimes hath been done. Then he showeth them their work Their ev...

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• Job 36:9 - 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 36:9 - 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 36:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Their work, i.e. their evil works, as the next clause explains and limits it. By these afflictions he brings them to a sight of their sins and to repentance, which is the way and means of their rec...

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• Job 36:9 - 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 36:9 - 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 36:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then He sheweth them their work, and their transgression that they have exceeded. Showing up our transgressions I. General remarks on the text. 1. Sin is properly attributable to man. It is...

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• Job 36:9 - 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 36:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Benevolent Purposes of Divine Justice

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• Job 36:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 11:32 ; 1 Timothy 1:15 ; 2 Chronicles 33:11-13 ; Deuteronomy 4:21 ; Deuteronomy 4:22 ; Ezekiel 18:28-31 ; Isaiah 59:12 ; Job 10:2 ; Lamentations 3:39 ; Lamentations 3:40 ; Lu...

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• Job 36:9 - 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 36:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Work — Their evil works, by these afflictions he brings them to a sight of their sins. Exceeded — That they have greatly sinned by abusing their power and prosperity; which even good men are too pr...

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