Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 35:16
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Therefore – In view of all that Elihu had now said, be came to the conclusion that the views of Job were erroneous, and that he had no just cause of complaint. He had suffered no more than he had deserved; he might have obtained a release or mitigation if he had applied to God; and the government of God was just, and was every way worthy of confidence. The remarks of Job, therefore, complaining of the severity of his sufferings and of the government of God, were not based on knowledge, and had in fact no solid foundation.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 16. Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain] God will execute vengeance when it may best serve the ends of his justice, providence, and mercy. The delay of judgment is not proof that it shall not be executed; nor is the deferring of mercy any proof that God has forgotten to be gracious.
He multiplieth words without knowledge] However this may apply to Job, it most certainly applies very strongly and generally to the words, not only of Job’s three friends, but to those also of Elihu himself. The contest is frequently a strife of words.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Therefore; hence it is manifest.
Open his mouth in vain, i.e. pour forth his complaints without any success, and gets no ease by them.
He multiplieth words without knowledge, thereby discovering his ignorance of God and of himself.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
16. Apodosis to Job35:15.
in vainrashly.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain,…. In uttering such unbecoming expressions, observed, and refuted, in his loud complaints of God, and of his dealings with him, and in defence of himself;
he multiplieth words without knowledge; both against God and in answer to others; being in a great measure ignorant of the nature and number of his sins, and of his afflictions; and of the end of God in them, and of the right he had to lay them upon him; us well as of his duty patiently to bear them, and trust in God, and wait his own time for deliverance out of them; and or the truth of this he was afterwards convinced, and acknowledged it, Job 42:3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(16) Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
REFLECTIONS
MY soul, here is a new field opened for thy further improvement in this highly finished reasoning of Elihu. And, surely, the HOLY GHOST graciously intended from it that the people of GOD should learn, that even good men, like Job, need to be perpetually on their guard, lest, in their view of things, they are found more attentive to their own ease than to the promotion of the divine glory. To promote this should be the first and great end of all our pursuit and all our desire. It was for this purpose creation work was first ordained. So the Song in heaven declared, when addressed to JEHOVAH, ‘That the LORD had created all things, and for his pleasure they were and are created.’ And, for the same end, redemption-work was accomplished, that GOD in all things might be glorified, in and through JESUS CHRIST. And oh! how blessed it is, and must be, when the believer is enabled by grace to say, It matters not what becomes of such a poor worthless creature as I am: but oh! let my GOD be glorified, and the work of redemption by the LORD JESUS be eternally praised, by giving glory to GOD in CHRIST.
Reader, how are you and I glorifying our GOD in his dispensations towards us? Can we, do we, bless GOD in all things, trials as well as enjoyments; dark seasons as well as light ones? Do we rejoice in all, and bless GOD in all, and thank GOD for all, and live to him through all? Do our discouragements leave these precious and blessed effects behind them, to endear JESUS the more, and the world the less? Are we more heavenly-minded, more disposed to prayer, less vain, less confident, more humble? Is sin more sinful to our view, more loathsome in itself, and are ourselves more loathsome also, from being the subject of it? Above all, Is JESUS more precious, increasingly dear, increasingly lovely? Are these the blessed effects in our experience? Oh! Sir, if these things be in us and abound, then is our state, be it what it may in outward appointments, or in inward exercises, a blessed state, and everything is ministering to our good. Then, as the Apostle saith, if these things be so, they shall make us to be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our LORD JESUS CHRIST.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Job 35:16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Ver. 16. Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain ] Dilatat, divaricat, rictum diducit ut bellua. An open mouth is oft a purgatory to the master; digito compesce labellum.
He multiplieth words without knowledge
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Job 3:1, Job 33:2, Job 33:8-12, Job 34:35-37, Job 38:2
Reciprocal: Job 9:20 – mine Job 13:2 – General Job 16:4 – up words Job 34:37 – multiplieth Ecc 10:14 – is full of words Eze 35:13 – have multiplied
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
35:16 Therefore doth Job {h} open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
(h) For if he punished you as you deserved, you would not be able to open your mouth.