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Job 34:1

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Then Elihu continued:

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Moreover Elihu answered and said,

KJV

Furthermore Elihu answered and said,

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This verse in Job 34

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Furthermore, Elihu answered and said - That is, evidently, after a pause to see if Job had anything to reply. The word answered in the Scriptures often means “to begin a discourse,” though nothing had been said by others; see Job 3:2; Isa 14:10; Zec 1:10; Zec 3:4; Zec 4:11-12. Sometimes it is used with reference to a subject, meaning that one replied to what could be suggested on the opposite side.

This site's exposition

Then Elihu continued

on Job 34:1-4

“Then Elihu continued” opens his second speech, addressed to a wider audience. His maxim, “the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food”, weighs speech by discernment whatever the speaker's age, as he claimed at 32:9. His appeal, “let us learn together what is good”, asks for a shared verdict.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church2 voices

A commentator

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIV · Written before 604.

proposed

Eliu also pronounced and said these things likewise. For what is meant by this word 'pronounced' but the puffing up of pride? in order that his words, which spring from the deep root of pride, might come forth as it were with a degree of majesty and distinction. It is thus in truth that all men of arrogance are wont to speak.

A commentator

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Job · Written before 1274.

proposed

After Eliud accused Job of the fact that he wanted to dispute with God, he enters into the dispute against two things which he had referred to already. (33:9-12b; 35:1) First, he argues against the fact that he interpreted Job to have said that divine …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Furthermore Elihu answered and said.

The words behind it

3 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּ֥עַןand he answered

    vaiyaanH6030 →331 times

  • אֱלִיה֗וּאElihu

    ʾelihu'H453 →11 times

  • וַיֹּאמַֽר׃and he said

    vaiyomarH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Job Hears of His Misfortunes, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Job: the study guide →Read Job 34 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIV; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.

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