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.
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