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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him,.... To God; through their oppressions of the poor they are made to cry by reason of them, and who come to God with their cries, and tears, and supplications, and which enter into the ears of the Lord of hosts; and he heareth the cry of the afflicted; as he did the cry of the Israelites under...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?.... Quietness or peace is of God; external peace to bodies of men, to communities, civil and religious, and to particular persons; quietness and contentment in outward enjoyments, peace and safety at home, and from enemies abroad; inward spiritual peace, this is of God, is in Christ, and from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? This is a most comforting question; for, if God gives quietness to the spirit, nobody can really trouble you. When Christ has once spoken peace to our heart, and given us a holy calm, then are we glad because we be quiet, and who is he that can raise a storm in our soul again? “The peace of God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only: that the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared. God has ways of dealing with his children by which he weeds out hypocrites, lays them low, and does not suffer them to have rule over his people.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
That the hypocrite reign not,.... These words seem to be connected with Job 34:24, "he breaketh in pieces mighty men", c. the whole of Job 34:29 being read in a parenthesis or with the phrase "he hideth his face"; as God is said to be in the destruction of mighty wicked men, who oppress the poor, and cause their cry to come to God, to prevent the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Surely it is meet to be said unto God,.... By any afflicted person under his chastising hand, and particularly by Job, for whom the advice and instructions in this verse and Job 34:32 are designed: I have borne [chastisement]; the word "chastisement" is not in the text, but is very properly supplied, as it is by Jarchi and others; the affliction...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: That is the spirit of the true-born child of God: “Father, I know that what I have suffered is a chastisement from thy hand, and I accept it as such. ‘I will not offend any more,’ I quit the sin that grieved thee.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[That which] I see not teach thou me,.... Which may be understood either of the chastisements of God, and his dealings with his people in a providential way, and of the design and use of them, which are sometimes unsearchable, and at most but a part of them only seen and known; it is meet to say to God, it is but a small part and portion of thy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That which I see not teach thou me: “Show me wherefore thou contendest with me. Point out to me the evil which thou wouldest have me put away.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If I have done iniquity, I will do no more. Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest. Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me. Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom. This man is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[Should it be] according, to thy mind?.... O Job, for the words seem to he directed to him; and may respect either the government of the world in general, and the disposal of all things in it, treated of in this chapter, though more remotely, Job 34:13. Is it not proper that God should govern it, who has made it, and do all things in it as he...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Let men of understanding tell me,.... Whether I am right or wrong: and let a wise man hearken unto me; to what I have said or shall say. Elihu here addresses the company around him, the wise and intelligent part of them; the words may be rendered in the future tense, men of understanding "will" tell me (n), and a wise man "will" hearken to me and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Job hath spoken without knowledge,.... Not that Job was an ignorant man, either in things natural or divine; but in this point, about the chastening hand of God upon him, he had said some things which betrayed lack of knowledge, as in Job 34:5; and his words [were] without wisdom; Job was not destitute of human wisdom, nor of spiritual wisdom, but...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
My desire [is that] Job may be tried unto the end,.... This is my opinion, or what "I bring in" (o) adduce, and lay before you, men of understanding and wisdom, and leave it with you to consider of. Some render it, "O my Father, let Job be tried", c. as if it was an apostrophe to God, and a request to him so Mr. Broughton, who adds, "which art in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men. For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God. Well, thank God, we are not going to be judged by Elihu, nor by any other of our fellow-creatures; to our own Master we stand or fall, and if we trust in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he addeth rebellion unto his sin,.... Or he "may" or "will" add (u), if he is suffered to go on at this rate, and is not stopped; as yet he has only committed, it may be charitably hoped, some sins through ignorance, error, and mistake, but if he is let alone he will proceed from evil to evil, to more ungodliness; to be guilty of presumptuous...