7 Is there anyone like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
7 What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,
7 Have you ever heard anything to beat this? Does nothing faze this man Job?
7 What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water,
7 "Tell me, has there ever been a man like Job, with his thirst for irreverent talk?
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.
(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?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 34:7
Commentary on Job 34:1-9
(Read Job 34:1-9)
Elihu calls upon those present to decide with him upon Job's words. The plainest Christian, whose mind is enlightened, whose heart is sanctified by the Spirit of God, and who is versed in the Scriptures, can say how far matters, words, or actions, agree with true religion, better than any that lean to their own understandings. Job had spoken as if he meant wholly to justify himself. He that say, I have cleansed my hands in vain, does not only offend against God's children, Psalm 73:13-15, but gratifies his enemies, and says as they say.