Job 34

Reina Valera 1909 (RV1909) · Español

1 ADEMÁS respondió Eliú, y dijo: 2 Oid, sabios, mis palabras; y vosotros, doctos, estadme atentos. 3 Porque el oído prueba las palabras, como el paladar gusta para comer. 4 Escojamos para nosotros el juicio, conozcamos entre nosotros cuál sea lo bueno: 5 Porque Job ha dicho: Yo soy justo, y Dios me ha quitado mi derecho. 6 ¿He de mentir yo contra mi razón? Mi saeta es gravosa sin haber yo prevaricado. 7 ¿Qué hombre hay como Job, que bebe el escarnio como agua? 8 Y va en compañía con los que obran iniquidad, y anda con los hombres maliciosos. 9 Porque ha dicho: De nada servirá al hombre el conformar su voluntad con Dios. 10 Por tanto, varones de seso, oidme: Lejos esté de Dios la impiedad, y del Omnipotente la iniquidad. 11 Porque él pagará al hombre según su obra, y él le hará hallar conforme á su camino. 12 Sí, por cierto, Dios no hará injusticia, y el Omnipotente no pervertirá el derecho. 13 ¿Quién visitó por él la tierra? ¿y quién puso en orden todo el mundo? 14 Si él pusiese sobre el hombre su corazón, y recogiese así su espíritu y su aliento, 15 Toda carne perecería juntamente, y el hombre se tornaría en polvo. 16 Si pues hay en ti entendimiento, oye esto: escucha la voz de mis palabras. 17 ¿Enseñorearáse el que aborrece juicio? ¿y condenarás tú al que es tan justo? 18 ¿Hase de decir al rey: Perverso; y á los príncipes: Impíos? 19 ¿Cuánto menos á aquel que no hace acepción de personas de príncipes, ni el rico es de él más respetado que el pobre? porque todos son obras de sus manos. 20 En un momento morirán, y á media noche se alborotarán los pueblos, y pasarán, y sin mano será quitado el poderoso. 21 Porque sus ojos están sobre los caminos del hombre, y ve todos sus pasos. 22 No hay tinieblas ni sombra de muerte donde se encubran los que obran maldad. 23 No carga pues él al hombre más de lo justo, para que vaya con Dios á juicio. 24 El quebrantará á los fuertes sin pesquisa, y hará estar otros en su lugar. 25 Por tanto él hará notorias las obras de ellos, cuando los trastornará en la noche, y serán quebrantados. 26 Como á malos los herirá en lugar donde sean vistos: 27 Por cuanto así se apartaron de él, y no consideraron todos sus caminos; 28 Haciendo venir delante de él el clamor del pobre, y que oiga el clamor de los necesitados. 29 Y si él diere reposo, ¿quién inquietará? si escondiere el rostro, ¿quién lo mirará? Esto sobre una nación, y lo mismo sobre un hombre; 30 Haciendo que no reine el hombre hipócrita para vejaciones del pueblo. 31 De seguro conviene se diga á Dios: Llevado he ya castigo, no más ofenderé: 32 Enséñame tú lo que yo no veo: que si hice mal, no lo haré más. 33 ¿Ha de ser eso según tu mente? El te retribuirá, ora rehuses, ora aceptes, y no yo: di si no, lo que tú sabes. 34 Los hombres de seso dirán conmigo, y el hombre sabio me oirá: 35 Que Job no habla con sabiduría, y que sus palabras no son con entendimiento. 36 Deseo yo que Job sea probado ampliamente, á causa de sus respuestas por los hombres inicuos. 37 Porque á su pecado añadió impiedad: bate las manos entre nosotros, y contra Dios multiplica sus palabras.

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Job 34:2

2. This chapter is addressed also to the "friends" as the thirty-third chapter to Job alone.

Job 34:4

4. judgment--Let us select among the conflicting sentiments advanced, what will stand the test of examination.

Job 34:5

5. judgment--my right. Job's own words (Job 13:18; 27:2).

Job 34:6

6. Were I to renounce my right (that is, confess myself guilty), I should die. Job virtually had said so (Job 27:4, 5; 6:28). Maurer, not so well, "Notwithstanding my right (innocence) I am treated as a liar," by God, by His afflicting me.

my wound--literally, "mine arrow," namely, by which I am pierced. So "my stroke" ("hand," Job 23:2, Margin). My sickness (Job 6:4; 16:13).

without transgression--without fault of mine to deserve it (Job 16:17).

Job 34:8

8. Job virtually goes in company (makes common cause) with the wicked, by taking up their sentiments (Job 9:22, 23, 30; 21:7-15), or at least by saying, that those who act on such sentiments are unpunished (Mal 3:14). To deny God's righteous government because we do not see the reasons of His acts, is virtually to take part with the ungodly.

Job 34:9

9. with God--in intimacy (Psa 50:18, Margin).

Job 34:10

10. The true answer to Job, which God follows up (Job 38:1-41). Man is to believe God's ways are right, because they are His, not because we fully see they are so (Ro 9:14; De 32:4; Ge 18:25).

Job 34:13

13. If the world were not God's property, as having been made by Him, but committed to His charge by some superior, it might be possible for Him to act unjustly, as He would not thereby be injuring Himself; but as it is, for God to act unjustly would undermine the whole order of the world, and so would injure God's own property (Job 36:23).

disposed--hath founded (Is 44:7), established the circle of the globe.

Job 34:14-15

14-15. "If He were to set His heart on man," either to injure him, or to take strict account of his sins. The connection supports rather [Umbreit], "If He had regard to himself (only), and were to gather unto Himself (Psa 104:29) man's spirit, &c. (which he sends forth, Psa 104:30; Ec 12:7), all flesh must perish together," &c. (Ge 3:19). God's loving preservation of His creatures proves He cannot be selfish, and therefore cannot be unjust.

Job 34:16

16. In Job 34:2, Elihu had spoken to all in general, now he calls Job's special attention.

Job 34:17

17. "Can even He who (in thy view) hateth right (justice) govern?" The government of the world would be impossible if injustice were sanctioned. God must be just, because He governs (2Sa 23:3).

govern--literally, "bind," namely, by authority (so "reign," 1Sa 9:17, Margin). Umbreit translates for "govern, repress wrath, namely, against Job for his accusations.

most just--rather, "Him who is at once mighty and just" (in His government of the world).

Job 34:18

18. Literally, (Is it fit) to be said to a king? It would be a gross outrage to reproach thus an earthly monarch, much more the King of kings (Ex 22:28). But Maurer with the Septuagint and Vulgate reads, (It is not fit to accuse of injustice Him) who says to a king, Thou art wicked; to princes, Ye are ungodly; that is, who punishes impartially the great, as the small. This accords with Job 34:19.

Job 34:20

20. they--"the rich" and "princes" who offend God.

the people--namely, of the guilty princes: guilty also themselves.

at midnight--image from a night attack of an enemy on a camp, which becomes an easy prey (Ex 12:29, 30).

without hand--without visible agency, by the mere word of God (so Job 20:26; Zec 4:6; Da 2:34).

Job 34:21

21. God's omniscience and omnipotence enable Him to execute immediate justice. He needs not to be long on the "watch," as Job thought (Job 7:12; 2Ch 16:9; Jr 32:19).

Job 34:23

23. (1Co 10:13; La 3:32; Is 27:8). Better, as Umbreit, "He does not (needs not to) regard (as in Job 34:14; Is 41:20) man long (so Hebrew, Ge 46:29) in order that he may go (be brought by God) into judgment." Literally, "lest his (attention) upon men" (Job 11:10, 11). So Job 34:24, "without number" ought to be translated, "without [needing any] searching out," such as has to be made in human judgments.

Job 34:25

25. Therefore--because He knows all things (Job 34:21). He knows their works, without a formal investigation (Job 34:24).

in the night--suddenly, unexpectedly (Job 34:20). Fitly in the night, as it was in it that the godless hid themselves (Job 34:22). Umbreit, less simply, for "overturneth," translates, "walketh"; that is, God is ever on the alert, discovering all wickedness.

Job 34:26

26. He striketh them--chasteneth.

as--that is, because they are wicked.

sight of others--Sinners hid themselves in darkness; therefore they are punished before all, in open day. Image from the place of public execution (Job 40:12; Ex 14:30; 2Sa 12:12).

Job 34:27-28

27-28. The grounds of their punishment in Job 34:26. Job 34:28 states in what respect they "considered not God's ways," namely, by oppression, whereby "they caused the cry," &c.

Job 34:29

29. (Pr 16:7; Is 26:3).

make trouble--rather, "condemn" (Ro 8:33, 34). Maurer, from the reference being only to the godless, in the next clause, and Job 34:20 translates, "When God keeps quiet" (leaves men to perish) Psa 83:1; [Umbreit] from the Arabic (strikes to the earth), "who shall condemn Him as unjust?" Job 34:17.

hideth ... face--(Job 23:8, 9; Psa 13:1).

it be done--Whether it be against a guilty nation (2Ki 18:9-12) or an individual, that God acts so.

Job 34:31

31. Job accordingly says so (Job 40:3-5; Mi 7:9; Le 26:41). It was to lead him to this that Elihu was sent. Though no hypocrite, Job, like all, had sin; therefore through affliction he was to be brought to humble himself under God. All sorrow is a proof of the common heritage of sin, in which the godly shares; and therefore he ought to regard it as a merciful correction. Umbreit and Maurer lose this by translating, as the Hebrew will bear, "Has any a right to say to God, I have borne chastisement and yet have not sinned?" (so Job 34:6).

borne--namely, the penalty of sin, as in Le 5:1, 17.

offend--literally, "to deal destructively or corruptly" (Ne 1:7).

Job 34:33

33. Rather, "should God recompense (sinners) according to thy mind? Then it is for thee to reject and to choose, and not me" [Umbreit]; or as Maurer, "For thou hast rejected God's way of recompensing; state therefore thy way, for thou must choose, not I," that is, it is thy part, not mine, to show a better way than God's.

Job 34:34-35

34-35. Rather, "men ... will say to me, and the wise man (Job 34:2, 10) who hearkens to me (will say), 'Job hath spoken,'" &c.

Job 34:36

36. 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.

Job 34:37

37. clappeth ... hands--in scorn (Job 27:23; Eze 21:17).

multiplieth ... words--(Job 11:2; 35:16). To his original "sin" to correct which trials have been sent, "he adds rebellion," that is, words arraigning God's justice.

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