Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 34:34

Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.

34 37. The verdict regarding Job’s demeanour which all men of understanding and those who listen to Elihu will give,

34. Men of understanding will say unto me,

And the wise man who heareth me:

35. Job speaketh without knowledge,

And his words are without wisdom.

36. Would that Job were tried unto the end,

Because of his answers in the manner of wicked men.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Let men of understanding – Margin, as in Hebrew heart. The heart, as there has been frequent occasions to remark, in the Scriptures is often used to denote the seat of the mind or soul, as the head is with us. Rosenmuller, Umbreit, and Noyes, render this passage as if it were to be taken in connection with the following verse, Men of understanding will say, and a wise man who hears my views will unite in saying, Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words are without wisdom. According to this, the two verses express a sentiment in which Elihu supposes every wise man who had attended to him would concur, that what Job had said was not founded in knowledge or on true wisdom.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Job 34:34

Let men of understanding tell me.

Abide by certitudes

It behoves us to beware of originality in matters of faith. The old maxim that What is true is not new, and what is new is not true, is of no little value. Parke Godwin used to say that he had heard a good deal of original investigation where the originality surpassed the investigation. Dr. C.F. Deans also remarked, Believe your beliefs, and doubt your doubts; never make the mistake of doubting your beliefs and believing your doubts. Never be reckless in abandoning, without sufficient cause, a faith long cherished by the most devout souls of all ages. As Paley says, We should never suffer what we know to be disturbed by what we do not know. And Butler well adds, if a truth be established, objections are nothing; the one is founded on our knowledge, the other on our ignorance. There is an Arab fable of a dervish who was told that the philosophers stone lay in a certain river bed. He picked up pebble after pebble only to throw it away; and actually picked up the treasure among the rest, but he had formed such a habit of casting away that he threw the philosophers stone away too, and never could recover it. (A. T. Pierson.)

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Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell

Verse 34. Let men of understanding tell me] I wish to converse with wise men; and by men of wisdom I wish what I have said to be judged.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

I am content that any wise man should judge of my words, and let such consider what I say. Or, as others translate the place, Men of understanding will speak for or with (as the prefix lamed is sometimes used, as Gen 46:26; Num 18:11; Job 17:5) me, and

wise men will

hearken or assent unto me.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

34, 35. Rather, “men . . .will say to me, and the wise man (Job 34:2;Job 34:10) who hearkens to me(will say), ‘Job hath spoken,'” &c.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let men of understanding tell me,…. Whether I am right or wrong:

and let a wise man hearken unto me; to what I have said or shall say. Elihu here addresses the company around him, the wise and intelligent part of them; the words may be rendered in the future tense, men of understanding “will” tell me n, and a wise man “will” hearken to me and assent, not only to what I have said, but to what I am about to say, namely, what follows.

n “dicent”; Junius and Tremellius, Piscator, Vatablus, Mercerus, Drusius, Cocceius, Michaelis, Schultens: so Broughton.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(34) Let men of understanding tell me.Rather, Men of understanding will say to me, or, agree with me; and every wise man that heareth me will say, &c.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

34. Let men, etc. Rather, men of understanding will say to me, even the wise man who hears me, etc.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 34:34 Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.

Ver. 34. Let men of understanding tell me ] Or, say with me; say as I say; viz. That Job hath spoken without knowledge, as Job 34:35 , and that I have spoken the thing that is right in vindicating the divine justice from thy causeless criminations.

And let a wise man hearken unto me ] I presume there is not one wise man alive but will be of my mind; and for fools, the wen of this world, ever beside themselves in point of salvation, I regard not their censures. – Equitem mihi plaudere curo.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)