Job 34:5-7, 36 | JFB | STEP | 5. judgment —my right. Job's own words ( ).

Job 34:5-7

5. judgment—my right. Job's own words (Job 13:18; 27:2).

6. Were I to renounce my right (that is, confess myself guilty), I should die. Job virtually had said so (Job 27:4, 5; 6:28). MAURER, not so well, "Notwithstanding my right (innocence) I am treated as a liar," by God, by His afflicting me.

my wound—literally, "mine arrow," namely, by which I am pierced. So "my stroke" ("hand," Job 23:2, Margin). My sickness (Job 6:4; 16:13).

without transgression—without fault of mine to deserve it (Job 16:17).

7. (Job 15:16). Image from the camel.

scorning—against God (Job 15:4).

Job 34:36

36. Margin, not so well, "My father," Elihu addressing God. This title does not elsewhere occur in Job.

tried—by calamities.

answers for wicked men—(See on Job 34:8). Trials of the godly are not removed until they produce the effect designed.