But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
Parallel translations
- WEB But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.
- BSB and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
- 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 89:32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- Job 30:15–31Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
- Job 13:15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
- Job 4:5But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
- Job 9:14How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
- Hos 11:8–9How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
- Luke 1:20And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
- Heb 12:11–12Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
- Ps 88:11–16Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
- Num 20:12And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
- Rev 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
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