Job 36:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

Job 36:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 22:24
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
Psalms 138:6
Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
Job 37:23
Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
Jeremiah 10:12
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Psalms 147:5
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

Topics

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Commentary

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

(vv. 5-14)

Elihu, being to speak on God’s behalf, and particularly to ascribe righteousness to his Maker, here shows that the disposals of divine Providence are all, not only according to the eternal counsels of his will, but according to the eternal rules of equity. God acts as a righteous governor, for, I. He does not think it below him to take notice of the meanest of his subjects, nor does poverty or obs…

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

(vv. 5)

5. Rather, “strength of understanding” (heart) the force of the repetition of “mighty”; as “mighty” as God is, none is too low to be “despised” by Him; for His “might” lies especially in “His strength of understanding,” whereby He searches out the most minute things, so as to give to each his right. Elihu confirms his exhortation (Job 35:14).