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Job 34:32-37

Listen to Job 34:32-37
32 Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I won't do it again."
33 Should God repay [you] on your terms when you have rejected [His]? You must choose, not I! So declare what you know.
34 Reasonable men will say to me, along with the wise men who hear me,
35 "Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight."[a]
36 If only Job were tested to the limit, because [his] answers are [like] those of wicked men.
37 For he adds rebellion to his sin; he [scornfully] claps in our presence, while multiplying his words against God.[b]

Job 34:32-37 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 34

In this chapter Elihu reassumes his discourse, and proceeds in his answer to Job, in which are first a preface exciting attention, Job 34:1-4; then a charge is brought against Job, expressed in or extracted from some words that dropped from his lips, not so well guarded, Job 34:5-9; a refutation of these expressions of his in a variety of arguments, Job 34:10-30; and the chapter is closed with some good advice to Job, Job 34:31-33; and with an earnest request of Elihu to men of understanding, to join with him in trying him to the uttermost, Job 34:34-37.

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Footnotes 2

  • [a] Jb 35:16; 38:2; 42:3
  • [b] Jb 35:16; Isa 1:2
Holman Christian Standard Bible ® Copyright © 2003, 2002, 2000, 1999 by Holman Bible Publishers.  Used by permission.  All rights reserved.

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