--- title: "Job 36 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Job 36 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 Elihu also proceeded, and said, 2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf. 3 I will fetch my knowledge from af" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/job/36" --- [ Read](/kjv/job/36)[ Commentary](/study/job/36)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/job/36) Audio 1 Elihu also proceeded, and said, 2 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that *I have* yet to speak on God’s behalf.* 3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. 4 For truly my words *shall* not *be* false: he that is perfect in knowledge *is* with thee. 5 Behold, God *is* mighty, and despiseth not *any: he is* mighty in strength *and* wisdom.* 6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.* 7 He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings *are they* on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted. 8 And if *they be* bound in fetters, *and* be holden in cords of affliction; 9 Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. 10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. 11 If they obey and serve *him*, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. 12 But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.* 13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them. 14 They die in youth, and their life *is* among the unclean.** 15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.* 16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait *into* a broad place, where *there is* no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table *should be* full of fatness.* 17 But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold *on thee*.* 18 Because *there is* wrath, *beware* lest he take thee away with *his* stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.* 19 Will he esteem thy riches? *no*, not gold, nor all the forces of strength. 20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place. 21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction. 22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? 23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? 24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. 25 Every man may see it; man may behold *it* afar off. 26 Behold, God *is* great, and we know *him* not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: 28 Which the clouds do drop *and* distil upon man abundantly. 29 Also can *any* understand the spreadings of the clouds, *or* the noise of his tabernacle? 30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.* 31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance. 32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it *not to shine* by *the cloud* that cometh betwixt. 33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.* [Job 35](/study/job/35) [Job 37](/study/job/37) ## Commentary To verse 1 CHAP. XXXVI. *Elihu sets forth the justice of God in all his ways, and extols the greatness of his power and providence.* *Before Christ 1645.* ***[Job 36:1](/kjv/job/36/1)*****.*****Elihu also proceeded*****—** Elihu goes on to lay before Job the impropriety of his behaviour towards God, and desires him to consider how vain it will prove; that God is Almighty, and will never yield the point, that he will administer impartial justice to all men: [Job 36:2-6](/kjv/job/36/2-6).; that the general course of his providence is, to favour the righteous; and that, though he may sometimes correct them in love, yet, if they submit patiently to his fatherly correction, and amend their ways, they shall enjoy all manner of prosperity. But if they are stubborn, and will not submit, they only draw down greater degrees of his vengeance on themselves; [Job 36:7-16](/kjv/job/36/7-16). He tells him, that had he followed the former course, he had probably before now been restored to his former condition; whereas, by persisting in the latter, he was in a fair way of becoming a signal example of the divine vengeance: [Job 36:17-18](/kjv/job/36/17-18). He warns him, therefore, to make use of the present opportunity, lest God should cut him off while in a state of rebellion: for that, with God, neither wealth, power, nor any other argument that he could use, would be of any avail: [Job 36:18-26](/kjv/job/36/18-26). God was infinitely powerful; there was, therefore, no resisting him; and infinitely wise, as sufficiently appeared by his works; there was, therefore, no escaping out of his hands. His purity was so great, that the sun in his presence was more dim than the smallest ray when compared with that bright luminary; his holiness was manifest, from his aversion to iniquity; and his goodness, in supplying the wants of his creatures: Job 36:26 to chap. [Job 36:23](/kjv/job/36/23). Man was utterly unable to account for the least of his works; how then dared he to attempt to penetrate the secrets of his providence, and to call him to an account for his dealings with men? This could proceed only from an unjustifiable self-conceit: [Job 36:24](/kjv/job/36/24) a crime which the Almighty would not fail severely to punish. 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