Job 36

Job 36:2

GOD’S. Hebrew Eloah. App-4.

Job 36:5

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.

GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.

is mighty. This is the text of Elihu’s discourses, leading up to God’s own addresses to Job. Compare Job 36:26, and Job 33:12.

Job 36:6

wicked = lawless. Hebrew rasha’. App-44.

poor = wretched. Hebrew. ’ani. See note on Proverbs 6:11.

Job 36:9

transgressions. Hebrew. pasha’. App-44.

Job 36:10

iniquity. Hebrew. ’aven. App-44. Not the same word as Job 36:23.

Job 36:14

They die = their souls die. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.

unclean = sodomites. See note on Deuteronomy 23:17.

iniquity. Hebrew. ’aval. App-44. Not the same word as verses: Job 36:10, Job 36:21.

Job 36:24

men. Hebrew, plural of ’enosh. App-14.

Job 36:25

Every man. Hebrew every ’adam. App-14.

man may behold = all mankind have gazed.

Job 36:26

is great. See note on Job 36:5.

His years. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

Job 36:29

can any . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.

spreadings = suspensions, or floatings.

tabernacle = booth. Hebrew. sukkah.

Job 36:30

bottom = roots or offspring, i.e. clouds.

Job 36:31

people = peoples.

Job 36:33

sheweth = announceth.