Job 34:36 BSB — MannaFest

Job 34:36

If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.

KJV

My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.

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Commentary

1 voice

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVI (604)

My Father, let Job be tried even to the end. Lo! how he lifts up even in words of cursing, that which he had before conceived of the swellings of arrogance. But he would perhaps wish for the force of a merciful probation, if he had believed that he had stood firm in probation. In order then that the malice of his cruelty may openly appear, he prays, that he may still be tried by scourges, who he complains had already fallen during his scourges.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end - אבי יבחן איוב abi yibbachen Aiyob, “My father, let Job be tried.” So the Vulgate, Pater mi, probetur Job. But it may be as in the common translation, I wish Job to be tried; or, as Mr. Good renders it, Verily, let Job be pursued to conquest for replying like wicked men. This is a very harsh wish: but the whole chapter is in the same spirit; nearly destitute of mildness and compassion.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אָבִ֗י	'a.Vi	would that!	H15 →
יִבָּחֵ֣ן	yi.ba.Chen	he will be tested	H974 →
אִיּ֣וֹב	'i.Yov	Job	H347 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
נֶ֑צַח	Ne.tzach	perpetuity	H5331 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
תְּ֝שֻׁבֹ֗ת	te.shu.Vot	answers	H8666 →
בְּאַנְשֵׁי־	be.'an.shei-	among people of	H582 →
אָֽוֶן׃	'A.ven	wickedness	H205 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 17:3
You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
leads to
- Job 23:10
  Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
- Psalms 26:2
  Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
- Acts 11:23
  When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
- Psalms 39:1
  I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
- Malachi 3:2
  But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
Through
Job 24:1
“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
leads to
- Acts 1:7
  Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
- Ecclesiastes 3:17
  I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
- 2 Peter 3:7–8
  And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

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04Related verses

06About Job

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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About Job