23 It claps its hands in derision and hisses him out of his place."
23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
23 It claps its hands at him and hisses at him from its place.
23 Pummeled by the weather, blown to kingdom come by the storm.'
23 Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.
23 But everyone jeers at them and mocks them.
37 To his sin he adds rebellion; scornfully he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God."
37 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
37 For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God."
37 You've compounded your original sin by rebelling against God's discipline, Defiantly shaking your fist at God, piling up indictments against the Almighty One."
37 For he adds rebellion to his sin; He claps his hands among us, And multiplies his words against God."
37 For you have added rebellion to your sin; you show no respect, and you speak many angry words against God."
(Read Job 34:31-37)
When we reprove for what is amiss, we must direct to what is good. Job's friends would have had him own himself a wicked man. Let will only oblige him to own that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. Let us, in giving reproof, not make a matter worse than it is. Elihu directs Job to humble himself before God for his sins, and to accept the punishment. Also to pray to God to discover his sins to him. A good man is willing to know the worst of himself; particularly, under affliction, he desires to be told wherefore God contends with him. It is not enough to be sorry for our sins, but we must go and sin no more. And if we are affectionate children, we shall love to speak with our Father, and to tell him all our mind. Elihu reasons with Job concerning his discontent under affliction. We are ready to think every thing that concerns us should be just as we would have it; but it is not reasonable to expect this. Elihu asks whether there was not sin and folly in what Job said. God is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works, Psalm 145:17. The believer saith, Let my Saviour, my wise and loving Lord, choose every thing for me. I am sure that will be wisest, and the best for his glory and my good.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 27:23
Commentary on Job 27:11-23
(Read Job 27:11-23)
Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to destruction. While he lived, he had the benefit of sparing mercy; but now the day of God's patience is over, and he will pour out upon him his wrath. When God casts down a man, there is no flying from, nor bearing up under his anger. Those who will not now flee to the arms of Divine grace, which are stretched out to receive them, will not be able to flee from the arms of Divine wrath, which will shortly be stretched out to destroy them. And what is a man profited if he gain the whole world, and thus lose his own soul?