Job 35:15
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and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
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Job being still silent, Elihu follows his blow, and here, a third time, undertakes to show him that he had spoken amiss, and ought to recant. Three improper sayings he here charges him with, and returns answer to them distinctly: - I. He had represented religion as an indifferent unprofitable thing, which God enjoins for his own sake, not for ours; Elihu evinces the contrary (Job 35:1-8). II. He had complained of God as deaf to the cries of the oppressed, against which imputation Elihu here justifies God (Job 35:9-13). III. He had despaired of the return of God's favour to him, because it was so long deferred, but Elihu shows him the true cause of the delay (Job 35:14-16).
Open source ↗35:15-16 Elihu echoed and then rejected Job’s words (9:24; 12:6-10; 21:7-15, 17).
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I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.
And now you will be silent and unable to speak until the day this comes to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”
But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.