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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 34:31 - 34:31
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Job accordingly says so (Job 40:3-5; Mic 7:9; Lev 26:41). It was to lead him to this that Elihu was sent. Though no hypocrite, Job, like all, had sin; therefore through affliction he was to be brought to humble himself under God. All sorrow is a proof of the common heritage of sin, in which the godly shares; and therefore he ought to regard it as a merciful correction. Umbreit and Maurer lose this by translating, as the Hebrew will bear, “Has any a right to say to God, I have borne chastisement and yet have not sinned?” (so Job 34:6).
borne - namely, the penalty of sin, as in Lev 5:1, Lev 5:17.
offend - literally, “to deal destructively or corruptly” (Neh 1:7).