Job 35

Notes on the verses

Chap. XXXV. Ver. 1—16. Elihu pursues his argument against Job, and had certainly given way too much to infide charges him with self ipldeolieneee dob temptations, and had in effect said with the profane, ((Job 21:15).) “ What is Ver. 31. Ihave borne—I rill not ofnd.—Heath renders this, I lift wp (my hands;) Scott, Boothroyd, ** Perish.” on My Prayer.” Heath adds, ‘‘ Let me not be destroyed;” Ver. 33. Should it be according to thy mind.—See margin. (“‘ Should it be) from with thee?” This is still more perplexed. i The original is very obscure and variously translated. i The common version is probably faithful to the sense, that God will do as pleaseth him, whether we approve or censure. Ver.

36. My desire is.—See margin. But this seems 7 to the context. [But it may be rendered, ‘‘ My wish is, that Job may be tried,’’ as it is in the Chaldee.]—Bagster.—Tried unto the end answer for—Many MSS. read, lice wicked m (i. e. be tried) because of his en or infidels. The difference in the original is very slight. “Without searching out;” i. e. unsearch-. Ver. 37. He clappeth his hands among us, victory) and multiplieth his words against God !—That was his rebel (i. e. he triumphs in his Eaproned Chap. XXXV. Ver. 2. My righteousness is more than God’s.—This 1s infetential reasoning from such passages as ch. xiii. 18, ii X1K, 6,7. 3 xxvii 2 dc,