and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
Parallel translations
- WEB But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.
- KJV But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
- NKJV And now, because He has not punished in His anger, Nor taken much notice of folly,
- NASB “And now, because He has not avenged His anger, Nor has He acknowledged wrongdoing well,
- NLT You say he does not respond to sinners with anger and is not greatly concerned about wickedness.
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Quick answer
Elihu suggests that because God has not yet poured out His anger, Job presumes upon Him. God's patience should not be mistaken for unconcern.
Overview
This verse is difficult, but Elihu seems to say that since God has withheld immediate judgment, Job has grown careless and arrogant. The point warns against misreading divine forbearance as neglect or weakness. Scripture teaches that God's patience is meant to lead to repentance, not presumption (Rom. 2:4), a kindness fully displayed in the long-suffering grace of God in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 89:32I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.
- Job 30:15–31Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
- Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
- Job 4:5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
- Job 9:14How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
- Hos 11:8–9How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
- Luke 1:20And now you will be silent and unable to speak until the day this comes to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled at their proper time.”
- Heb 12:11–12No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.
- Ps 88:11–16Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
- Num 20:12But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
- Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
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Christ at the center
Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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