Job 36:1 (RLT): Elihu also proceeded, and said,

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Elihu also proceeded, and said, 2Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf. 3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

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וַיֹּ֥סֶף אֱלִיה֗וּא וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Read the interlinear

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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Elihu also proceeded - Mr. Heath gives a good summary of this chapter. Elihu goes on to lay before Job the impropriety of his behavior towards God, and desires him to consider how vain it will prove. That God Almighty will never yield the point; that he will administer impartial justice to all men, Job 36:2-6. That the general course of his providence is to favor the righteous: and that though he may sometimes correct them in love, yet if they submit…Read the comment
Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Elihu also proceeded - Hebrew added - ויסף vayâsaph Vulgate “addens;” Septuagint, ̀ Eerostheis - “adding, or proceeding.” The Hebrew commentators remark that this word is used because this speech is “added” to the number which it might be supposed he would make. There had been “three” series of speeches, by Job and his friends, and in each one of them Job had spoken three times. Each one of the three friends had also spoken thrice, except Zophar, who…Read the comment
Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Elihu desires Job's attention. (1-4) The methods in which God deals with men. (5-14) Elihu counsels Job. (15-23) The wonders in the works of creation. (24-33) Verses 1-4 Elihu only maintained that the affliction was sent for his trial; and lengthened because Job was not yet thoroughly humbled under it. He sought to ascribe righteousness to his Maker; to clear this truth, that God is righteous in all his ways. Such knowledge must be learned from the word…Read the comment
Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-33Job 36:1-33. 1-2. Elihu maintains that afflictions are to the godly disciplinary, in order to lead them to attain a higher moral worth, and that the reason for their continuance is not, as the friends asserted, on account of the sufferer's extraordinary guilt, but because the discipline has not yet attained its object, namely, to lend him to humble himself penitently before God (Is 9:13; Jr 5:3). This is Elihu's fourth speech. He thus exceeds the ternary…Read the comment

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