Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 34:32
[That which] I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
That which I see not, teach thou me – That is, in regard to my errors and sins. No prayer could be more appropriate than this. It is language becoming every one who is afflicted, and who does not see clearly the reason why it is done. The sense is, that with a full belief that he is liable to error and sin, that he has a wicked and deceitful heart, and that God never afflicts without reason, he should go to him and ask him to show him why he has afflicted him. He should not complain or repine; he should not accuse God of injustice or partiality; he should not attempt to cloak his offences, but should go and entreat him to make him acquainted with the sins of heart and life which have led to these calamities. Then only will he be in a state of mind in which he will be likely to be profited by trials.
If I have done iniquity, I will do no more – Admitting the possibility that he had erred. Who is there that cannot appropriately use this language when he is afflicted?
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 32. That which I see not] “What I do not know, teach thou me; wherein I have done iniquity, I will do so no more.”
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
I will no longer maintain mine innocency, but from thy judgments I will conclude and have reason to believe that there are some secret sins in me, for which thou dost chastise me, and which I through mine ignorance or partiality cannot yet discover, and therefore do beg that thou wouldst by thy Spirit manifest them to me. If I have done iniquity, I will amend my former errors.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
32. (Job 10:2;Psa 32:8; Psa 19:12;Psa 139:23; Psa 139:24).
no more (Pro 28:13;Eph 4:22).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
[That which] I see not teach thou me,…. Which may be understood either of the chastisements of God, and his dealings with his people in a providential way, and of the design and use of them, which are sometimes unsearchable, and at most but a part of them only seen and known; it is meet to say to God, it is but a small part and portion of thy ways that is known by me; I can see but little into them: teach me more of thy mind and will in them, or else of sins and transgressions, the cause of chastisement; it is proper for an afflicted man to say unto God, I am conscious to myself of many sinful failings and infirmities, but there may be secret sins committed by me which have escaped my notice and observation; point them out to me, that I may be humbled for them, and make a free confession of them;
if I have done iniquity, I will do no more; that is, if I have committed any capital crime, any foul offence or gross enormity, for otherwise no man lives without sin, I sincerely repent of it, and will take care for the future, through divine grace, to do so no more.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
32. That which I see not , without, beyond: that which lies beyond my vision. The expression points to latent sins unknown iniquity. The soul is a darkened chamber that hides its own uncleanness. The light of the divine Spirit alone discloses the hidden domains of evil the man of corruption to his own quickened conscience. “Moses well calls sin a secret thing, whose greatness no mind can comprehend. For as the wrath of God is, and as death is, so also is sin, an inconceivable infinite.” LUTHER, on Psa 90:8. The reader is referred to Sermons, in loc., by Leighton and Tillotson.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 34:32 [That which] I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
Ver. 32. That which I see not, teach thou me ] For I am yet in the dark, and know not the right cause wherefore thou afflictest me. Herein men are very apt to mistake themselves, and when God calls one way to run another, as young Samuel did, i Sam. iii. 5. The devil also dealeth by the afflicted as the Jews did by Christ, blindfolds them, and then bids them prophesy who smote them, and for what? Hence in afflictions we many times grope as blind men, guessing at this cause and at that, but seldom fasten on the right. Here, then, God must be sought unto for direction, and besought that he would graciously point us to the sin he strikes at. This Job had done once and again, Job 10:2 ; Job 13:23 . But Elihu would have him to do it yet better.
If I have done iniquity, I will do no more
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
which: Job 10:2, Psa 19:12, Psa 25:4, Psa 25:5, Psa 32:8, Psa 139:23, Psa 139:24, Psa 143:8-10
if: Pro 28:13, Luk 3:8-14, Eph 4:22, Eph 4:25-28
Reciprocal: Gen 38:26 – And he knew Gen 42:21 – they said Exo 10:16 – I have Lev 13:23 – General Lev 26:43 – and they Num 22:34 – I Have sinned Jdg 10:15 – deliver Jdg 13:8 – teach us 1Sa 6:3 – known Job 6:24 – Teach me Job 9:15 – I would Job 11:14 – put it far Job 33:23 – an interpreter Job 40:5 – but I will not Job 42:9 – did Psa 86:11 – Teach Psa 119:135 – and teach Lam 3:40 – search Dan 4:27 – break Hos 14:2 – General Hos 14:8 – What Mic 7:9 – bear Act 16:30 – brought 1Co 11:32 – we are Eph 4:28 – steal no more Heb 12:7 – endure
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
34:32 {a} [That which] I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
(a) Thus Elihu speaks in the person of God, as it were mocking Job, because he would be wiser than God.