Job 35
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 35, 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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Elihu spake moreover, and said,
Job 35:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thinkest thou this to be right, {that} thou saidst, My righteousness {is} more than God's?
Job 35:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? {and}, What profit shall I have, {if I be cleansed} from my sin? {if...: or, by it more than by my sin}
Job 35:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. {answer...: Heb. return to thee words}
Job 35:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds {which} are higher than thou.
Job 35:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or {if} thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Job 35:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
Job 35:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thy wickedness {may hurt} a man as thou {art}; and thy righteousness {may profit} the son of man.
Job 35:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make {the oppressed} to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
Job 35:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But none saith, Where {is} God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
Job 35:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Job 35:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Job 35:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
Job 35:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, {yet} judgment {is} before him; therefore trust thou in him.
Job 35:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But now, because {it is} not {so}, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth {it} not in great extremity: {he hath: that is, God hath} {he knoweth: that is, Job knoweth}
Job 35:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Job 35:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.