God’s Word Translation
Job 34:36
36“My Father, let Job be thoroughly tested for giving answers like wicked people do.
Job 34:36 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
- New International Version (NIV)Oh, that Job might be tested to the utmost for answering like a wicked man!
- English Standard Version (ESV)Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Oh, that Job were tried to the utmost, Because his answers are like those of wicked men!
Context of Job 34:36
34“People of understanding, the wise people who listen to me, will say, 35‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words show no insight.’ “My Father, let Job be thoroughly tested for giving answers like wicked people do. 37He adds disobedience to his sin. He claps his hands to insult us. He multiplies his words against God.”
Read all of Job 34Job 34:36 word by word
אָבִ֗י יִבָּחֵ֣ן אִיּ֣וֹב עַד־נֶ֑צַח עַל־תְּ֝שֻׁבֹ֗ת בְּאַנְשֵׁי־אָֽוֶן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 34:36
- Job 23:16God has discouraged me. The Almighty has filled me with terror.
- Psalms 17:3You have probed my heart. You have confronted me at night. You have tested me like silver, but you found nothing wrong. I have determined that my mouth will not sin.
- Psalms 26:2Examine me, O Lord, and test me. Look closely into my heart and mind.
- James 5:11We consider those who endure to be blessed. You have heard about Job’s endurance. You saw that the Lord ended Job’s suffering because the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
- Job 34:8who travels with troublemakers and associates with evil people?
- Job 12:6⌞But⌟ robbers’ tents are prosperous, and there is security for those who provoke God, for those whose god is their power.
- Job 21:7“Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, and even become more powerful?
- Job 24:1“Why doesn’t the Almighty set aside times ⌞for punishment⌟? Why don’t those who are close to him see his days ⌞of judgment⌟?
Commentaries on Job 34:36
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 36My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end - איוב יבחן אבי abi yibbachen Aiyob, "My father, let Job be tried." So the Vulgate, Pater mi, probetur Job. But it may be as in the common translation, I wish Job to be tried; or, as Mr. Good renders it, Verily, let Job be pursued to conquest for replying like wicked men. This is a very harsh wish: but the whole chapter is in the same spirit; nearly destitute of mildness and compassion. Who could suppose…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 36My desire is - Margin, “or, “my father, let Job be tried.”” This variation between the text and the margin, arises from the different interpretations affixed to the Hebrew word אבי 'âbiy The Hebrew word commonly means “father,” and some have supposed that that sense is to be retained here, and then it would be a solemn appeal to God as his Father - expressing the earnest prayer of Elihu that Job might be fully tried. But the difficulties in this…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 31-37Verses 31-37 When we reprove for what is amiss, we must direct to what is good. Job's friends would have had him own himself a wicked man. Let will only oblige him to own that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. Let us, in giving reproof, not make a matter worse than it is. Elihu directs Job to humble himself before God for his sins, and to accept the punishment. Also to pray to God to discover his sins to him. A good man is willing to know the worst of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 36tried to the utmost: Zophar also said that Job should have suffered worse punishment than he did (11:6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3636. Margin, not so well, "My father," Elihu addressing God. This title does not elsewhere occur in Job. tried--by calamities. answers for wicked men--(See on Job 34:8). Trials of the godly are not removed until they produce the effect designed.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 34
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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