Job 35:15
and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
BSB
ASV
But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, Neither doth he greatly regard arrogance;
KJV
But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
But now, because it is not so - This verse, as it stands in our authorized translation, conveys no intelligible idea. It is evident that the translators meant to give a literal version of the Hebrew, but without understanding its sense. An examination of the principal words and phrases may enable us to ascertain the idea which was in the mind of Elihu when it was uttered.
But it was not fair to charge this upon Job, which he had neither directly nor indirectly affirmed. Clouds, &c. - They are far above us, and God is far above them. How much then is he out of the reach either of our sins or our services?
Because - Because Job doth not acknowledge God's justice and his own sins. Anger - Hath laid grievous afflictions upon him. He - Job is not sensible of it, so as to be humbled under God's hand.
The foolishness of man perverts his way, and then his heart frets against the Lord, Prov. xix. Yet Elihu thinks that Job, being in great extremity, did not know and consider this as he should, that it was his own fault that he was not yet delivered.
MAURER translates: "Because His anger hath not visited (hath not immediately punished Job for his impious complaints), nor has He taken strict (great) cognizance of his folly (sinful speeches); therefore," &c. For "folly," UMBREIT translates with the Rabbins, "multitude." GESENIUS reads with the Septuagint and Vulgate needlessly, "transgression."
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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
Revelation 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
leads to
My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
Through
Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
leads to
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.