Chapter 36
Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
Suffer
I have yet to speak, etc
Heb. there are yet words for God.
13.7,8 33.6 Exodus 4.16 Jeremiah 15.19 Ezekiel 2.7 2 Corinthians 5.20
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
fetch
28.12,13,20-24 32.8 Proverbs 2.4,5 Matthew 2.1,2 12.42 Acts 8.27-40 Romans 10.6-8 James 1.5,17 3.17
ascribe
32.2 34.5,10-12 Deuteronomy 32.4 Psalms 11.7 145.17 Jeremiah 12.1 Daniel 9.7,14 Romans 3.25,26 9.14 Revelation 15.3
For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
my
13.4,7 21.27,34 22.6-30 Proverbs 8.7,8 2 Corinthians 2.17
perfect
37.16 Luke 1.3 Acts 24.22 1 Corinthians 14.20 *marg:; Colossians 4.12 2 Timothy 3.16,17
in
Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
despiseth
mighty
9.14,19 12.13-16 26.12-14 37.23 Psalms 99.4 147.5 Jeremiah 10.12 32.19 1 Corinthians 1.24-28
wisdom
Heb. heart.
He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
preserveth
21.7-9,30 Psalms 55.23 Jeremiah 12.1,2 2 Peter 2.9
giveth
29.12-17 Psalms 9.12 10.14,15 72.4,12-14 82.1-4 Proverbs 22.22,23 Isaiah 11.4
poor
or, afflicted.
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.
withdraw
2 Chronicles 16.9 Psalms 33.18 34.15 Zephaniah 3.17 1 Peter 3.12
with
1.3 42.12 Genesis 23.6 41.40 1 Samuel 2.8 Esther 10.3 Psalms 78.70-72 113.7,8
he doth
2 Samuel 7.13-16 Psalms 112.7-10 2 Thessalonians 3.3
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
if
13.27 19.6 33.18,19 Psalms 18.5 107.10 116.3 Lamentations 3.9
cords
Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.
he
10.2 Deuteronomy 4.21,22 2 Chronicles 33.11-13 Psalms 94.12 119.67,71 Lamentations 3.39,40 Luke 15.17-19 1 Corinthians 11.32
their
Psalms 5.10 Isaiah 59.12 Ezekiel 18.28-31 Romans 5.20 1 Timothy 1.15
He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
openeth
15 33.16-23 Psalms 40.6 Isaiah 48.8,17 50.5 Acts 16.14
commandeth
Proverbs 1.22,23 8.4,5 9.4-6 Isaiah 1.16-20 55.6,7 Jeremiah 4.3,4 7.3-7 Ezekiel 18.30,31 Hosea 14.1 Matthew 3.8 Acts 3.19 17.30 James 4.8
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
If
22.21 Deuteronomy 4.30 Jeremiah 7.23 26.13 Romans 6.17 Hebrews 11.8
spend
11.13-19 21.11 22.23 42.12 Ecclesiastes 9.2,3 James 5.5 Revelation 18.7
But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
if
Deuteronomy 18.15-22 29.15-20 Isaiah 1.20 3.11 Romans 2.8,9
perish
Heb. pass away. die.
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
heap
Numbers 32.14 2 Chronicles 28.13,22 Romans 2.5
they
15.4 27.8-10 35.9,10 Matthew 22.12,13
bindeth
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
They die
Heb. Their soul dieth.
15.32 21.23-25 22.16 Genesis 38.7-10 Leviticus 10.1,2 Psalms 55.23
unclean
or, sodomites.
Genesis 19.5,24,25 Deuteronomy 23.17
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
delivereth
poor
or, afflicted. openeth.
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.
a broad
19.8 42.10-17 Psalms 18.19 31.8 40.1-3 118.5
that which should be set on thy table
Heb. the rest of thy table. full.
Psalms 23.5 36.8 63.5 Isaiah 25.6 55.2
But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
fulfilled
16.5 34.8,36 Romans 1.32 Revelation 18.4
take hold on thee
should uphold thee.
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
Because
Psalms 2.5,12 110.5 Matthew 3.7 Romans 1.18 2.5 Ephesians 5.6
his
Psalms 39.10 Isaiah 14.6 Ezekiel 24.16
then
33.24 Psalms 49.7,8 1 Timothy 2.6 Hebrews 2.3
deliver thee
Heb. turn thee aside.
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
Will
Proverbs 10.2 11.4 Isaiah 2.20 Zephaniah 1.18 James 5.3
nor all
9.13 34.20 Psalms 33.16,17 Proverbs 11.21 Isaiah 37.36
Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
Desire
3.20,21 6.9 7.15 14.13 17.13,14
cut
Exodus 12.29 2 Kings 19.35 Proverbs 14.32 Ecclesiastes 11.3 Daniel 5.30 Luke 12.20 Acts 1.25 1 Thessalonians 5.2,3
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
regard
Psalms 66.18 Ezekiel 14.4 Matthew 5.29,30
this
34.7-9 35.3 Daniel 3.16-18 6.10 Matthew 13.21 16.24 Acts 5.40,41 Hebrews 11.25 1 Peter 3.17 4.15,16
Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
God
1 Samuel 2.7,8 Psalms 75.7 Isaiah 14.5 Jeremiah 27.5-8 Daniel 4.25,32 5.18 Luke 1.52 Romans 13.1
who
Psalms 94.10,12 Isaiah 48.17 54.13 Jeremiah 31.38 John 6.45
Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
Who hath
34.13-33 Isaiah 40.13,14 Romans 11.34 1 Corinthians 2.16 Ephesians 1.11
Thou
8.3 34.10 40.8 Romans 2.5 3.5 9.14
Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
magnify
12.13-25 26.5-14 Psalms 28.5 34.3 72.18 86.8-10 92.4,5 104.24 Psalms 107.8,15 111.2-4,8 145.10-12 Jeremiah 10.12 Daniel 4.3,37 Luke 1.46
which
Deuteronomy 4.19 Psalms 19.1-4
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
God
we
11.7-9 26.14 37.23 1 Kings 8.27
neither
Psalms 90.2 102.24-27 Hebrews 1.12 2 Peter 3.8
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
he
5.9 38.25-28,34 Genesis 2.5,6 Psalms 65.9-13 Isaiah 5.6 Jeremiah 14.22
the vapour
Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
37.11-13 Genesis 7.11,12 Proverbs 3.20
Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
the spreadings
37.16 38.9,37 1 Kings 18.44,45 Psalms 104.3
the noise
37.2-5 Psalms 18.13 29.3-10 77.16-19 104.7 Nahum 1.3 Habakkuk 3.10
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
he
and
38.8-11 Genesis 1.9 Exodus 14.22,28 15.4,5 Psalms 18.11-16 104.5-9
bottom
Heb. roots.
For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
37.13 38.22,23 Genesis 6.17 7.17-24 19.24 Exodus 9.23-25 Deuteronomy 8.2,15 Joshua 10.11 1 Samuel 2.10 7.10 12.18
he giveth
38.26,27 Psalms 65.9-13 104.13-15,27,28 136.25 Acts 14.17
With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
26.9 Exodus 10.21-23 Psalms 18.11 135.7 147.8,9 148.8 Acts 27.20
The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.
noise
29 37.2 2 Samuel 22.14 1 Kings 18.41-45
the cattle
Jeremiah 14.4-6 Joel 1.18 2.22
the vapour
Heb. that which goeth up.