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Commentary</a></div><span class="bld"><a href="/job/35-1.htm" title="Elihu spoke moreover, and said,">Job 35:1</a></span>. <span class="ital">Elihu spake moreover — </span>Job still keeping silence, perhaps because he was convinced that although Elihu had made a very harsh construction of his words, he was influenced by a good motive in what he had advanced, and had now, in the conclusion, given him very wholesome counsel, and, allowing his integrity, had only charged him with some violent expressions, which had fallen from him when he was in great anguish of spirit; Elihu goes on in this chapter to fix the very same harsh sense upon Job’s words. He first puts it to his conscience whether he thought it could be right to gain his acquittal by an impeachment of God’s justice; yet, he tells him he must have thought after this manner, otherwise he would never have made use of such an atheistical expression as, “that he had no profit by doing his duty, more than if he had sinned;” referring, probably, to <a href="/job/23-11.htm" title="My foot has held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.">Job 23:11</a>; <a href="/job/23-15.htm" title="Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.">Job 23:15</a>. That he ought to consider that God was so far above the influence of all human actions, that neither could their good deeds be of any advantage to him, nor could their evil deeds affect him, <a href="/context/job/35-2.htm" title="Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?...">Job 35:2-7</a>. They might, indeed, affect themselves or their neighbours: they might suffer from the oppressions of men, and cry aloud to God to relieve them; but if this cry was not made with an entire dependance on, and a perfect resignation to, the will of God, it would be quite fruitless: God would not give the least ear to it, <a href="/context/job/35-8.htm" title="Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man....">Job 35:8-14</a>. Much less ought they, in every affliction, to be flying in the face of the Almighty and shaking off his sovereignty; that they ought rather to wait his leisure with patience; and that Job himself would not have acted in this manner, had he not been hurried away by too great a self-confidence, <a href="/context/job/35-15.htm" title="But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:...">Job 35:15-16</a>. — Heath.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/job/35.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>35:1-8 Elihu reproves Job for justifying himself more than God, and called his attention to the heavens. They are far above us, and God is far above them; how much then is he out of the reach, either of our sins or of our services! We have no reason to complain if we have not what we expect, but should be thankful that we have better than we deserve.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/job/35.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Elihu spake - Hebrew, ויען vaya‛an "And he answered"; the word "answer" being used, as it is often in the Scriptures, to denote the commencement of a discourse. We may suppose that Elihu had paused at the close of his second discourse, possibly with a view to see whether there was any disposition to reply. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/job/35.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>CHAPTER 35<p>Job 35:1-16.Our good or evil extendeth not to God, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/job/35-1.htm" title="Elihu spoke moreover, and said,...">Job 35:1-7</a></span>, but to men on earth, who are hereby oppressed, and cry out, but not unto God, nor are delivered, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/job/35-8.htm" title="Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man....">Job 35:8-12</a></span>. He exhorteth to hope in God, though for the present he be angry, <span class="bld"><a href="/context/job/35-13.htm" title="Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it....">Job 35:13-16</a></span>. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/job/35.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>Elihu spake moreover, and said. Elihu very probably paused awhile, and waited to observe whether any of the company would rise up, and either contradict and refute what he had said, or declare their assent unto it and approbation of it; or rather to see whether Job would make any reply or not; but perceiving no inclination in him to it, he proceeded to take notice of some other undue expressions of Job, and refute them; one of which is observed in <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-2.htm">Job 35:2</a>, and the proof of it given in <a href="/job/35-3.htm">Job 35:3</a>. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/job/35.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Elihu spake moreover, and said,</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/job/35.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 1-16.</span> - In this short chapter, once more Elihu addresses himself to Job, first (vers. 1-8) answering his complaint that a life of righteousness has brought him no correspondent blessings; and then (vers. 9-14) explaining to him that his prayers and appeals to God have probably not been answered because they were not preferred in a right spirit, <span class="accented">i.e.</span> with faith and humility. Finally (verb. 15, 16), he condemns Job for haughtiness and arrogance, and reiterates the charge that he "multiplies words without knowledge" (comp. <a href="/job/34-35.htm">Job 34:35-37</a>). <span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 1, 2.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Elihu spake moreover, and said, Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?</span> Once more it is to be observed that Job had said no such thing. At the worst, he had made statements from which it might be argued that he regarded himself as having a more delicate sense of justice than God (<span class="accented">e.g.</span> <a href="/job/9-22.htm">Job 9:22-24</a>; <a href="/job/10-3.htm">Job 10:3</a>; <a href="/job/12-6.htm">Job 12:6</a>, etc.). But Elihu insists on pushing Job's intemperate phrases to their extremest logical issues, and taxing Job with having <span class="accented">said</span> all that his words might seem to a strict logician to involve (compare the comment on Job 34:5, 9). Job 35:1<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/job/35.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div> 1 Then began Elihu, and said:<p> 2 Dost thou consider this to be right,<p>Sayest thou: my righteousness exceedeth God's,<p> 3 That thou sayest, what advantage is it to thee,<p>What doth it profit me more than my sin?<p> 4 I will answer thee words,<p>And thy companions with thee.<p>The neutral זאת, <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-2.htm">Job 35:2</a>, refers prospectively to כּי־תאמר, <a href="/job/35-3.htm">Job 35:3</a>: this that thou sayest. חשׁב with acc. of the obj. and ל of the predicate, as <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/33-10.htm">Job 33:10</a>, comp. <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/13-24.htm">Job 13:24</a>, and freq. The second interrogative clause, <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-2.htm">Job 35:2</a>, is co-ordinate with the first, and the collective thought of this ponderous construction, <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-2.htm">Job 35:2</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-3.htm">Job 35:3</a>, is this: Considerest thou this to be right, and thinkest thou on this account to be able to put thy righteousness above the divine, that, as thou maintainest, no righteousness on the side of God corresponds to this thy righteousness, because God makes no distinction between righteousness and the sin of man, and allows the former to go unrewarded? צדקי (for which Olsh. wishes to read צדקתּי, as <a href="/job/9-27.htm">Job 9:27</a> אמרתי for אמרי) forms with מאל a substantival clause: justitia mea est prae Deo (prae divina); מן comparative as <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/32-2.htm">Job 32:2</a>, comp. on the matter <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/34-5.htm">Job 34:5</a>, not equivalent to ἀπό as <a href="/job/4-17.htm">Job 4:17</a>. כי־תאמר is first followed by the oratio obliqua: what it (viz., צדקך) advantageth thee, then by the or. directa (on this change vid., Ew. 338, a): what profit have I((viz., בצדקי), prae peccato meo; this מן is also comparative; the constantly ambiguous combination would be allowable from the fact that, according to the usage of the language, "to obtain profit from anything" is expressed by הועיל בּ, not by הועיל מן. Moreover, prae peccato meo is equivalent to plus quam inde quod pecco, comp. <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/18-24.htm">Psalm 18:24</a>, מעוני, <a href="/hosea/4-8.htm">Hosea 4:8</a> אל־עונם. We have already on <a href="/job/34-9.htm">Job 34:9</a> observed that Job has not directly said (he cites it, <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-15.htm">Job 21:15</a>, as the saying of the ungodly) what Elihu in <a href="/job/35-3.htm">Job 35:3</a> puts into his mouth, but as an inference it certainly is implied in such utterances as <a href="/job/9-22.htm">Job 9:22</a>. Elihu's polemic against Job and his companions (רעיך are not the three, as lxx and Jer. translate, but the אנשׁי און, to whom Job is likened by such words as <a href="http://biblehub.com/job/34-8.htm">Job 34:8</a>, <a href="/job/34-36.htm">Job 34:36</a>) is therefore not unauthorized; especially since he assails the conclusion together with its premises. 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