Job 34:33 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³³Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.

Job 34:33 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 33:32
If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
Isaiah 45:9
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Job 34:11
For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
Psalms 135:6
Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
Proverbs 11:31
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 31-37)

In these verses, I. Elihu instructs Job what he should say under his affliction, Job 34:31, 32. Having reproved him for his peevish passionate words, he here puts better words into his mouth. When we reprove for what is amiss we must direct to what is good, that our reproofs may be the reproofs of instruction, Prov. 6:23. He does not impose it upon Job to use these words, but recommends it to him,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 33)

33. Rather, “should God recompense (sinners) according to thy mind? Then it is for thee to reject and to choose, and not me” [Umbreit]; or as Maurer, “For thou hast rejected God’s way of recompensing; state therefore thy way, for thou must choose, not I,” that is, it is thy part, not mine, to show a better way than God’s.