Job 36:1
Elihu also proceeded, and said,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Elihu also proceeded, and said,
In Context
2Allow me a little, and I will show thee. For I have yet somewhat to say on God's behalf.
Cross References
Job 32:6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old. Therefore I held back, and dared not show you my opinion.
Matthew Henry on Job 36:1
Elihu, having largely reproved Job for some of his unadvised speeches, which Job had nothing to say in the vindication of, here comes more generally to set him to rights in his notions of God's dealings with him. His other friends had stood to it that, because he was a wicked man, therefore his afflictions were so great and so long. But Elihu only maintained that the affliction was sent for his trial, and that therefore it was lengthened out because Job was not, as yet, thoroughly humbled under it, nor had duly… Read the whole commentary →