Job 34:16

Filipino Cebuano Bible

16 Kong karon ikaw adunay salabutan, pamatia kini: Patalinghugi ang tingog sa akong mga pulong.

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Job 12:3, Job 13:2-6

Reciprocal: Job 34:34 - understanding Proverbs 1:5 - wise

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If now [thou hast] understanding, hear this,.... Not as calling his understanding in question, as if he, had none; for Job was a very understanding man; he had not lost his natural understanding by his afflictions, see Job 6:13; nor was he without an understanding of divine things, as his speeches and answers show; but rather it is taken for granted that he was a man of understanding: "if" or "seeing" thou hast understanding, art a man of knowledge and intelligence, therefore hearken and attend to what has been said or about to be said; though, as some Jewish interpreters a observe, the word is not a noun, but a verb, and is imperative, "understand thou now, hear this"; and then the sense is, "if" things are so as before related, Job 34:13; then now understand this, take it into thy heart and mind, and well weigh and consider it:

hearken to the voice of my words; either the preceding or following ones.

a Jarchi, Bar Tzemach, in loc. so Cocceius, Schmidt, and Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If now thou hast understanding hear this - This appears to be addressed to Job. The discourse before this had been directed to his three friends, but Elihu appears here to have turned to Job, and to have made a solemn appeal to him, whether this were not so. In the subsequent verses he remonstrates with him about his views, and shows him that what he had said implied severe reflections on the character and government of God.