Job 34:33
Should he then according to thy view send a recompense, because thou hast rejected him? “Because thou must choose, and not I?” and what thou knowest, do speak.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
34Men of sense will say unto me, and every wise man who heareth me,
Cross References
Job 15:31Let him that goeth astray not trust in vanity; for vanity will be what he obtaineth thereby.
Job 33:5If thou canst, answer me, array thyself before me, stand forward.
Job 34:11For the work of a son of earth doth he recompense unto him, and according to the path of man doth he permit things to occur to him.
Psalms 50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; [but] I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.”
Psalms 135:6Whatsoever the Lord willeth, hath he done in the heavens, and on the earth, in the seas, and in all the deeps.
Isaiah 45:9Woe unto him that contendeth with the one who formed him—a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Matthew Henry on Job 34:32-37
31 Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: 32 That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more. 33 Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest. 34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me. 35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom. 36 My desire is that Job may be tried… Read the whole commentary →