Job 34:37 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁷For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

Job 34:37 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 27:23
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Isaiah 1:19-20
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: …
1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
Job 35:16
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Job 42:7
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

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. 37)

37. clappeth ... hands--in scorn (Job 27:23; Eze 21:17). multiplieth ... words--(Job 11:2; 35:16). To his original “sin” to correct which trials have been sent, “he adds rebellion,” that is, words arraigning God’s justice.