The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Strength” it comes from the Hebrew Word “koach” which means “strength, power.”
Elihu builds toward a magnificent description of God’s power displayed through nature. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Job 36.
Elihu continues, asking for a little more patience and he will show Job that he has more to say on God’s behalf, fetching his knowledge from afar and ascribing righteousness to his Maker, since truly his words are not false, and one perfect in knowledge is with him.
Elihu explains that God is mighty and despises not any, He is mighty in “strength,” “koach” in Hebrew, and wisdom of heart, not preserving the life of the wicked, but giving right to the poor, not withdrawing His eyes from the righteous, but establishing them with kings on the throne, and if they are bound in fetters and held in cords of affliction, then He shows them their work and their transgressions that they have exceeded, opening also their ear to discipline, commanding them to return from iniquity.
Elihu describes how if they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures, but if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword and die without knowledge, while the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath, not crying when He binds them, dying in youth, their life being among the unclean, delivering the poor in his affliction and opening his ears in oppression, urging Job to remember to magnify His work, which men behold, every man seeing it, man beholding it afar off, God being great, and man not knowing Him, the number of His years being unsearchable. Elihu describes at length God’s power over rain, clouds, thunder, and lightning, spread abroad to the ends of the earth, covering His hands with light, commanding it not to shine by the cloud that comes between, building toward the magnificent description of the storm that will soon give way to God’s own direct, dramatic appearance.
Elihu’s suggestion that affliction can serve as a form of instruction, opening the ear to discipline and calling people back from wandering, offers genuine wisdom even while it does not fully explain Job’s specific situation. His growing focus on God’s majestic power displayed through storms and weather begins building the dramatic momentum toward the book’s climactic moment, when God Himself will finally speak directly from within just such a storm.
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