Bible Commentaries

John Brown

Job 32:1-3 (NKJV) So these three men ceased answering Job 32:4-7 (NKJV) Now because they [were] years older than Job 32:9-10 (NKJV) Great men are not [always] wise, Nor do the aged [always] understand justice.

10 "Therefore I say, `Listen to me, I also will declare my opinion."

1. What he is saying at the beginning of these verses is that being old, or powerful (successful) doesn"t necessarily guarantee wisdom and understanding.

a) That is certainly true!And evidenced with Job's three friends.

D. Job 33:1-8 (NKJV) "But please, Job 33:9-11 (NKJV) `I [am] pure, without transgression; I [am] innocent, and [there] [is] no iniquity in me.

10 Yet He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;

11He puts my feet in the stocks, He watches all my paths. "

1. Job say that he is innocent therefore, the insinuation is that God is unjust in dealing with Job the way he has!

F. Job 33:12-17 (NKJV) "Look, [in] this you are not righteous. I will answer you, For God is greater than man.

13Why do you contend with Him? For He does not give an accounting of any of His words.

14For God may speak in one way, or in another, [Yet] [man] does not perceive it.

15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds,

16 Then He opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction.

17 In order to turn man [from] [his] deed, And conceal pride from Job 33:29-30 (NKJV) "Behold, God works all these [things], Twice, [in] [fact], three [times] with a Romans 8:28 (NKJV) And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to [His] purpose.