Job 34:26

26 Como a malvados los azota en un lugar público,

Job 34:26 Meaning and Commentary

Job 34:26

He striketh them as wicked men
Such is the strict justice of God, that he never strikes men, or inflicts punishment on them, or brings down his judgments upon them, but as wicked men, and because of their wickedness; the casting of man out of Eden was for his sin, as well as the casting down the angels from heaven that sinned; the drowning of the old world, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the ruin of Pharaoh and his host, the driving the Canaanites out of their land, the various captivities of the Israelites, with other instances of God's displeasure with men in this world, and the everlasting punishment of them in another, are only of them as wicked men, and for sin; and therefore he is not chargeable with any unrighteousness. Sephorno interprets it, "instead of wicked men", and illustrates it by the shaking out of Pharaoh and his host into the sea in the room and stead of the wicked Israelites, that came up from thence,

in the open sight of others:
which the same interpreter refers to the Israelites seeing the Egyptians dead on the seashore; or "in the place of them that see" F6, that is, in a public manner, as generally malefactors are executed, to which the allusion may be; it denotes the publicness of God's righteous judgments on wicked men, for the greater declaration of his power and justice, and for the greater shame and disgrace of such wicked men, and for the joy and comfort of the righteous delivered from them.


FOOTNOTES:

F6 (Myar Mwqmb) "in loco videntium", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Michaelis; "in loco spectantium", Beza, Cocceius, Schultens.

Job 34:26 In-Context

24 El quebranta a los poderosos sin indagar, y pone a otros en su lugar.
25 Pues El conoce sus obras, de noche los derriba y son aplastados.
26 Como a malvados los azota en un lugar público,
27 porque se apartaron de seguirle, y no consideraron ninguno de sus caminos,
28 haciendo que el clamor del pobre llegara a El, y que oyera el clamor de los afligidos.
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