Job 34:37 BSB — MannaFest

Job 34:37

For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

BSB

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ASV

For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God.

KJV

For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

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Commentary

1 voice

Gregory the Dialogist

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

Who hath added blasphemy upon his sins. He accuses him of having deserved scourges for his sins, and of having sinned after the scourges. But the Lord judges far otherwise, Who both asserts that he was scourged without reason, and conferred on him double goods, after his scourges. Blessed Job, then, is proved to have spoken without sin, whom rewards follow after his speech. Because, therefore, Eliu, when speaking in the Lord's defence, thinks of blessed Job differently from the Lord, he is at variance with the truth, while multiplying, as it were, his words in behalf of the truth.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Addeth - He sinned before, by impatience under his afflictions, now he is grown obstinate, and instead of humbling himself for his sins, justifies himself, and accuses the blessed God.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For he addeth rebellion unto his sin - To the sin which he has formerly committed and which bas brought these trials upon him, he now adds the sin of complaining and rebellion against God. Of Job, this was certainly not true to the extent which Elihu intended, but it is a very common case in afflictions. A man is visited with calamity as a chastisement for his sins.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֥י	ki	for	H3588 →
יֹ֘סִ֤יף	yo.Sif	he adds	H3254 →
עַֽל־	'al-	to	H5921 →
חַטָּאת֣וֹ	cha.ta.To	sin his	H2403 →
פֶ֭שַׁע	Fe.sha'	transgression	H6588 →
בֵּינֵ֣ינוּ	bei.Nei.nu	between us	H996 →
יִסְפּ֑וֹק	yis.Pok	he claps	H5606 →
וְיֶ֖רֶב	ve.Ye.rev	and he multiplies	H7235 →
אֲמָרָ֣יו	'a.ma.Rav	words his	H561 →
לָאֵֽל׃ ס	la.'El	to <the> God	H410 →

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

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Through
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”
leads to
- Jeremiah 28:16
  Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
- 1 Samuel 13:14
  But now your kingdom will not endure; the LORD has sought a man after His own heart and appointed him ruler over His people, because you have not kept the command of the LORD.”
- Leviticus 20:6
  Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
- Galatians 5:20
  idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
- Jeremiah 29:32
  this is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will…
Through
Job 35:16
So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
leads to
- Job 38:2
  “Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
Through
Job 27:23
It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
leads to
- Lamentations 2:15
  All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the…
- 1 Kings 9:8
  And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land…

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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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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About Job