Job 36:15
God rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.
BSB
ASV
He delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.
KJV
He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
He will deliver the poor from his straitness. The poor is delivered from his straitness, when any humble person is set free from this affliction of his pilgrimage. For he is here oppressed with even continual tribulations, in order that he may be excited to seek for the joy of real consolation. Whence it follows also, And will open his ear in tribulation. To open the ear in tribulation, is to open the hearing of the heart, by the affliction of blows.
He delivereth the poor in his affliction - Margin, “or afflicted.” This accords better with the usual meaning of the Hebrew word (עני ‛ânı̂y) and with the connection. The inquiry was not particularly respecting the “poor,” but the “afflicted,” and the sentiment which Elihu is illustrating is, that when the afflicted call upon God he will deliver them. The object is to induce Job to make such an application to God that he might be rescued from his calamities, and be permitted yet to enjoy life and happiness.
Same sentiment as Job 36:11, 12, expanded. hypocrites--or, the ungodly [MAURER]; but "hypocrites" is perhaps a distinct class from the openly wicked (Job 36:12). heap up wrath--of God against themselves (Ro 2:5). UMBREIT translates, "nourish their wrath against God," instead of "crying" unto Him. This suits well the parallelism and the Hebrew.
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
2 Chronicles 12:8Nevertheless, they will become his servants, so that they may learn the difference between serving Me and serving the kings of other lands.”
leads to
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
O LORD our God, other lords besides You have had dominion, but Your name alone do we confess.
Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
Through
Job 36:10He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.
leads to
Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.
He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings