He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.
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He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked, but gives justice to the afflicted.
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He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
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He preserveth not the life of the wicked; but giveth to the poor their right.
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Passages linked to Job 36:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 72:12-14 For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper. He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy. He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
- Psalms 140:12 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
- Exodus 22:22-24 “You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child. If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry; and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- Job 5:15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
- Job 21:7-9 “Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
- Psalms 72:4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
- 2 Peter 2:9 the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
- Job 29:12-17 Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him, the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know. I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
- Psalms 9:12 For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
- Psalms 55:23 But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
- Psalms 82:1-4 God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods. “How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
- Proverbs 22:22-23 Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court; for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
- Isaiah 11:4 but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
- Jeremiah 12:1-2 You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously? You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
- Job 21:30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
- Psalms 10:14-15 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
- Job 8:22 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Therefore he will not preserve the wicked: but to…
Therefore he will not preserve the wicked: but to the humble and afflicted heart he will show grace.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 36:6 He preserveth not the life of the…
Job 36:6 He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.
Ver. 6. He preserveth not the life of the wicked] He is no such friend to them; though he be good to the godly, be greatly careth not what becomes of them. Their life they hold of him, and many good things besides; for he is the Saviour, or preserver, of all men, but especially of them that believe. But he suffereth not the wicked to live, as the Hebrew here hath it, he withdraweth them not from the hand of justice, he bindeth not them up in the bundle of life, he reckoneth them not among the living in Jerusalem, among the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven; he many times slayeth them with his own hand, and cutteth them short in righteousness. Or if not so, yet their preservation is but reservation, &c.
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But giveth right to the poor] Or, to the afflicted. For poverty is an affliction, and subjecteth a man to many injuries: Zep 3:12, they are an afflicted and poor people, but trusting in the name of the Lord, they shall be relieved and righted, not so soon perhaps as themselves would, nor yet so long hence as their oppressors would. In the mount will the Lord be seen, who, as he seldom comes at our times, so he never fails his own time. Meanwhile this comfort they have:
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He preserveth not the life of the wicked, to…
He preserveth not the life of the wicked, to wit, for ever; but will in his due time forsake them, and give them up to the destroyer. Or, he doth not or will not preserve, is put for he will certainly and dreadfully destroy, by the figure called meiosis, used Pro 17:21, and oft elsewhere.
Giveth right to the poor; he doth uphold, and he certainly will in his time deliver, his poor oppressed ones from all their oppressors.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain He preserveth not the life of the wicked,.... He…
He preserveth not the life of the wicked,.... He makes a difference between wicked and righteous men, which shows him to be a holy and righteous God; though he preserves the life of all men so long as they live, yet not in the same way; he preserves the lives of wicked men in the common course of his providence, but not in a special way and manner, as he does the lives of the righteous, which are dear and precious to him; nor does he preserve to any great length such as are notorious sinners, who are guilty of capital crimes, as murder, &c. their lives are shortened, and they do not live out half their days: or he does not quicken them, bestow his spiritual favour upon them, in which only is life; and though they will be quickened and raised at the last day, as well as the righteous, yet not to the resurrection of life, but to the resurrection of damnation;
but giveth right to the poor; pleads their cause and rights their wrongs, administers justice to them, especially to the poor in spirit, who hunger and thirst after righteousness; to these he gives freely the righteousness of his son, which only denominates persons truly righteous: of whom in Job 36:7.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain But - He will certainly in his time deliver…
But - He will certainly in his time deliver his oppressed ones.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. He preserveth not the life] He will…
Verse 6. He preserveth not the life] He will not give life to the wicked; all such forfeit life by their transgressions.
But giveth right] Justice will he give to the afflicted or humble, עניים aniyim.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 36:6-7. He preserveth not the life of the…
Job 36:6-7. He preserveth not the life of the wicked — Namely, for ever: but will in due time forsake them, and give them up to the destroyer. Ab. Ezra interprets it, The years of the wicked shall be shortened. But giveth right to the poor — He upholds, and will certainly, at the proper time, deliver his poor, oppressed ones, from all their oppressors. He will avenge their quarrel upon their persecutors, and force them to make restitution of what they have unjustly robbed them of. For if men will not right the injured poor, God will. He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous — He never ceases to care for and watch over them; no, not when they are afflicted or persecuted, when he may seem to neglect them. If our eye be ever toward God in duty, his eye will be ever upon us in mercy, and when we are at the lowest will not overlook us. With kings are they on the throne — He sometimes raises them to the highest offices that kings can confer upon them; yea, he doth establish them for ever — Their felicity is more stable and permanent than that of the wicked; they are established as long as they live. And they are exalted — Above the power of their enemies, that would pull them down: or, they continue to be exalted, and are not cast down from their dignity, as the wicked commonly are.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain He preserveth not the life of the wicked -…
He preserveth not the life of the wicked - Elihu here maintains substantially the same sentiment which the three friends of Job had done, that the dealings of God in this life are in accordance with character, and that strict justice is thus maintained.
But giveth right to the poor - Margin, “or afflicted.” The Hebrew word often refers to the afflicted, to the humble, or the lowly; and the reference here is to the “lower classes” of society. The idea is, that God deals justly with them, and does not overlook them because they are so poor and feeble that they cannot contribute anything to him. In this sentiment Elihu was undoubtedly right, though, like the three friends of Job, he seems to have adopted the principle that the dealings of God here are according to the “characters” of people. He had some views in advance of theirs. He saw that affliction is designed for “discipline” Job 33; that God is willing to show mercy to the sufferer on repentance; that he is not dependent upon human beings, and that his dealings “cannot” be graduated by any reference to what he would receive or suffer from people; but still he clung to the idea that the dealings of God here are a proof of the character of the afflicted. What was mysterious about it he resolved into sovereignty, and showed that man “ought” to be submissive to God, and to “believe” that he was qualified to govern. He lacked the views which Christianity has furnished, that the inequalities that appear in the divine dealings here will be made clear in the retributions of another world.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain right . . . poor--He espouses the cause of…
right . . . poor--He espouses the cause of the afflicted.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6. He preserveth not the life — In allusion…
6. He preserveth not the life — In allusion to Job’s question, (Job_21:7.) “Wherefore do the wicked live?” See also Job_24:22, with note. The verb יחיה will admit the reading of Gesenius and Furst: — “He prospereth not the wicked.” It is not because of their wickedness that prosperity attends their ways. The economy that God has established tends to the overthrow of evil doers no less than to the exaltation of the righteous, a thought Elihu in the next verse proceeds to expand.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. Illustration of the operation of God’s understanding, giving…
6. Illustration of the operation of God’s understanding, giving to all conditions of men their due.
right to the poor] Rather, his right; poor may be, as marg., afflicted.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain He preserveth not the life of the wicked. There…
He preserveth not the life of the wicked. There is no special providence over the life of the wicked, as Job had supposed, or pretended to suppose. (Job_21:7; comp. Job_12:6) On the contrary, God "overturneth" wicked men "in the night, so that they are destroyed; he striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others". (Job_34:25, Job_34:26) But giveth right to the poor. The poor and afflicted, the meek and humble, God vindicates. They are his special charge. So far is he from favouring the ungodly.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 He does not withdraw his eyes from righteous people
He does not withdraw his eyes from righteous people
Elihu speaks of God protecting righteous people as if God were watching them with his eyes, and of God ceasing to protect them as if he withdrew his eyes from them. AT: "He does not stop protecting the righteous people" (See: Metaphor)
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sets them on thrones like kings
Elihu speaks of God honoring the righteous people as if God were causing them to sit on thrones like kings do. (See: Metaphor)
they are lifted up
Elihu speaks of God honoring the righteous people as if he lifted them up to a high place. This can be stated in active form. AT: "he lifts them up" or "he honors them" (See: Metaphor and Active or Passive)
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