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Text -- Job 36:17-33 (NET)
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36:17 But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked , judgment and justice take hold of you.
36:18 Be careful that no one entices you with riches ; do not let a large bribe turn you aside .
36:19 Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts ?
36:20 Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes .
36:21 Take heed , do not turn to evil , for because of this you have been tested by affliction .
36:22 Indeed , God is exalted in his power ; who is a teacher like him?
36:23 Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, ‘You have done what is wicked ’?
36:24 Remember to extol his work , which people have praised in song.
36:25 All humanity has seen it; people gaze on it from afar .
The Work and Wisdom of God
36:26 “Yes , God is great – beyond our knowledge ! The number of his years is unsearchable .
36:27 He draws up drops of water ; they distill the rain into its mist ,
36:28 which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly .
36:29 Who can understand the spreading of the clouds , the thunderings of his pavilion ?
36:30 See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea .
36:31 It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance .
36:32 With his hands he covers the lightning , and directs it against its target .
36:33 His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also , concerning the storm’s approach .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Elihu |
God |
Job |
GOD, 2 |
Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena |
Watchfulness |
Death |
VAPOR |
Ransom |
NOISE |
Ignorance |
ASTRONOMY, III |
Wicked |
Wisdom |
TAKE |
Praise |
WORLD, COSMOLOGICAL |
STACTE |
Infidelity |
Power |
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NET Notes: Job 36:18 The word is כֹּפֶר (kofer), often translated “ransom,” but frequently in the sense of a bribe.
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NET Notes: Job 36:20 The meaning of this line is difficult. There are numerous suggestions for emending the text. Kissane takes the first verb in the sense of “oppre...
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NET Notes: Job 36:21 Normally “tested” would be the translation for the Niphal of בָּחַר (bakhar). Although the Qal is empl...
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NET Notes: Job 36:22 The word מוֹרֶה (moreh) is the Hiphil participle from יָרַה (yarah). It is related t...
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NET Notes: Job 36:26 The last part has the verbal construction, “and we do not know.” This clause is to be used adverbially: “beyond our understanding....
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NET Notes: Job 36:27 This word עֵד (’ed) occurs also in Gen 2:6. The suggestion has been that instead of a mist it represents an underground waterc...
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NET Notes: Job 36:32 Because the image might mean that God grabs the lightning and hurls it like a javelin (cf. NLT), some commentators want to change “covers”...
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