Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 34:27
Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
Because they turned back from him – Margin, from after him. That is, they receded, or went away from God.
And would not consider any of his ways – They would not regard or attend to any of his commands. The word way, in the Scriptures, is often used to denote religion. A way denotes the course of life which one leads; the path in which he walks. The ways of God denote his course or plan, his precepts or laws; and to depart from them, or to disregard them, is only another mode of saying that a man has no religion.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 27. Because they turned back] This is the reason why he has dealt with them in judgment. They had departed from him in their hearts, their moral conduct, and their civil government. He is speaking of corrupt and tyrannical rulers. And they did not, would not, understand any of his ways.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
From him; from the God, whom they or their progenitors had owned; and his laws, which God hath written in the minds of all men, Rom 2:14,15; and, it may be, from the practice of the true religion, which sometimes they professed;
Would not consider, or understand. They did not desire nor endeavour to know them, at least practically, or to any good purpose.
His ways; either,
1. Gods providential ways. They did not lay to heart any of Gods judgments inflicted upon such oppressors as themselves, which should have given them warning, but boldly persisted in the same wicked courses. Or,
2. His precepts; oft called his ways, because he hath appointed them for us to walk in. For these ways they were in a special manner obliged to consider and practise; and the next verse giveth us an instance of their backsliding from these ways.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
27, 28. The grounds of theirpunishment in Job 34:26. Job34:28 states in what respect they “considered not God’sways,” namely, by oppression, whereby “they causedthe cry,” &c.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Because they turned back from him,…. Became apostates from the ways and worship of God, as the posterity of Cain before the flood, and the posterity of Ham after it; who had been educated and trained up therein, and turned from the law of God, as the Septuagint version, from the light and law of nature:
and would not consider any of his ways; either of providence, whether in a way of mercy which might lead to repentance, or in a way of judgment which might be a caution and instruction to them; or of his precepts, the way of his commandments, not any of these would they consider; so as to express a value for them, show any regard to them, and walk in them; and which was owing to the stubbornness of their wills; they would not advert to them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(27) Because they turned back from him.Elihu, therefore, as well as Jobs other friends, believed in the direct execution of Gods judgments.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
27. Compare Psa 28:5. From him The margin is more exact, and teaches us that God expects close following.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 34:27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
Ver. 27. Because they have turned back from him ] To pursue after lying vanities, broken cisterns; which whosoever do, as they fall into two foul sins at once (such as heaven and earth have cause to be astonished at and afraid of), Jer 2:12-13 , so they are miserable by their own election, Joh 2:8 .
And would not consider any of his ways
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
from = from after.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
turned: 1Sa 15:11, Psa 125:5, Zep 1:6, Luk 17:31, Luk 17:32, Act 15:38, 2Ti 4:10, Heb 10:39
from him: Heb. from after him
would: Psa 28:5, Psa 107:43, Pro 1:29, Pro 1:30, Isa 1:3, Isa 5:12, Hag 2:15-19
Reciprocal: Psa 44:18 – heart Isa 26:11 – will
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 34:27-28. Because they turned back from him From God, whom they or their progenitors had owned; and from his laws, which God had written on their minds, Rom 2:14; and from the practice of true religion, to sin and folly. And would not consider any of his ways So as to walk in them. Hebrew, , lo hischilu, they would not understand, or consider them wisely, so as to make a proper and wise use of their knowledge of them. They cause the cry of the poor to come to him To God, as the following words imply, it being Gods work to hear the cry, and plead the cause, of the afflicted or oppressed. Their case is bad who have the prayers and tears of the poor against them; for these will draw down vengeance, sooner or later, on the heads of their oppressors.