Job 34
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 34, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
Job 34:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear my words, O ye wise {men}; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
Job 34:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. {mouth: Heb. palate}
Job 34:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what {is} good.
Job 34:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Job 34:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Should I lie against my right? my wound {is} incurable without transgression. {my wound: Heb. mine arrow}
Job 34:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What man {is} like Job, {who} drinketh up scorning like water?
Job 34:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
Job 34:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Job 34:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, {that he should do} wickedness; and {from} the Almighty, {that he should commit} iniquity. {men...: Heb. men of heart}
Job 34:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to {his} ways.
Job 34:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
Job 34:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world? {the whole: Heb. all of it?}
Job 34:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If he set his heart upon man, {if} he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; {man: Heb. him}
Job 34:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
Job 34:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If now {thou hast} understanding, hear this: hearken to the voice of my words.
Job 34:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just? {govern: Heb. bind?}
Job 34:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Is it fit} to say to a king, {Thou art} wicked? {and} to princes, {Ye are} ungodly?
Job 34:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{How much less to him} that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all {are} the work of his hands.
Job 34:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand. {the mighty...: Heb. they shall take away the mighty}
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For his eyes {are} upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
Job 34:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{There is} no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Job 34:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he will not lay upon man more {than right}; that he should enter into judgment with God. {enter: Heb. go}
Job 34:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead. {number: Heb. searching out}
Job 34:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth {them} in the night, so that they are destroyed. {destroyed: Heb. crushed}
Job 34:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others; {open...: Heb. place of beholders}
Job 34:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways: {him: Heb. after him}
Job 34:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
Job 34:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth {his} face, who then can behold him? whether {it be done} against a nation, or against a man only:
Job 34:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
Job 34:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne {chastisement}, I will not offend {any more}:
Job 34:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{That which} I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
Job 34:32 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{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. {according...: Heb. from with thee?}
Job 34:33 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me. {of...: Heb. of heart}
Job 34:34 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words {were} without wisdom.
Job 34:35 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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My desire {is that} Job may be tried unto the end because of {his} answers for wicked men. {My...: or, My father, let Job be tried}
Job 34:36 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth {his hands} among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
Job 34:37 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.