Job 36
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 36, 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 also proceeded, and said,
Job 36:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that {I have} yet to speak on God's behalf. {I have...: Heb. there are yet words for God}
Job 36:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Job 36:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For truly my words {shall} not {be} false: he that is perfect in knowledge {is} with thee.
Job 36:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, God {is} mighty, and despiseth not {any: he is} mighty in strength {and} wisdom. {wisdom: Heb. heart}
Job 36:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor. {poor: or, afflicted}
Job 36:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings {are they} on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
Job 36:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And if {they be} bound in fetters, {and} be holden in cords of affliction;
Job 36:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
Job 36:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
Job 36:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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If they obey and serve {him}, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Job 36:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge. {perish: Heb. pass away}
Job 36:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
Job 36:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They die in youth, and their life {is} among the unclean. {They...: Heb. Their soul dieth} {unclean: or, sodomites}
Job 36:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression. {poor: or, afflicted}
Job 36:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait {into} a broad place, where {there is} no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table {should be} full of fatness. {that...: Heb. the rest of thy table}
Job 36:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold {on thee}. {take...: or, should uphold thee}
Job 36:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because {there is} wrath, {beware} lest he take thee away with {his} stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. {deliver...: Heb. turn thee aside}
Job 36:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Will he esteem thy riches? {no}, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Job 36:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Job 36:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Job 36:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
Job 36:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
Job 36:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
Job 36:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Every man may see it; man may behold {it} afar off.
Job 36:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, God {is} great, and we know {him} not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Job 36:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
Job 36:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which the clouds do drop {and} distil upon man abundantly.
Job 36:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Also can {any} understand the spreadings of the clouds, {or} the noise of his tabernacle?
Job 36:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. {bottom: Heb. roots}
Job 36:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
Job 36:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it {not to shine} by {the cloud} that cometh betwixt.
Job 36:32 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour. {the vapour: Heb. that which goeth up}
Job 36:33 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.