Job 35:4

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. I will answer thee - I will show thee the evil of a sinful way, and the benefit of righteousness; and supply what thy friends have omitted in their discourses with thee.

Related Commentaries of Job 35:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will answer thee - Margin, “return to thee words.” Elihu meant to explain this more fully than it had been done by the friends of Job, and to s...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

I will answer thee, and thy (b) companions with thee. (b) Such as are in the same error.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Elihu inquires whether it is Job's righteousness which finds expression in his question as to the profitableness of religion. Let him look to the hea...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. Companions - those entertaining like sentiments with thee ( Job 34:8 ; Job 34:36 ).
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Thy companions ] those who held the same views. 5-8. Elihu points to the infinite distance between God and man, and shows that He cannot be injur...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And thy companions. — Elihu professes to answer Job’s friends as well as himself, but what he says ( Job 35:5 , &c.) is very much what Eliphaz...
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 ascribe...
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, th...
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 th...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) В¶ Elihu spake moreover, and said, (2) Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? (3) For thou saidst...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. Meaning not his three friends, as the Septuagint version expresses it; for they were not on the s...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. Ver. 4. I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee ] Thy three friends (who have not so we...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I will answer thee, and thy companions That is, those who are of thy opinion. Look unto the heavens , &c. Cast up thine eyes to the heavens; l...
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 ch...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Address of Elihu. B. C. 1520. 1 El...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thy companions, i.e. those who are of thy opinion, or with whom thou dost associate thyself in those speeches and carriages; which seems to be mean...
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 cavi...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? Man’s character Nothing is so important to man as his character. I. That selfishness i...
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 l...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job's Standpoint of the Futility of Piety False
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee, all those to whose level of wickedness Job had lowered himself.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 34:8 ; Proverbs 13:20
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...

⁴ I will answera thee, and thy companions with thee.

Related Commentaries of Job 35:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job 35:4