Job 36 (WEB)

God

Also called
LORD, Lord, Father, hosts, Almighty, Holy, GOD, Saviour, last, JEHOVAH, Judge, father, lawgiver, Fathers, dayspring, host, Ancient
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Yahweh, the Personal Name of God

Word Study | Israel Loken • Hershel Wayne House
יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh ·Strong's H3068

Strictly speaking, the only personal name of God belonging to Him alone, and the most significant name of God found in the Old Testament (over 5000 times).  Yahweh is the approximate (and likely) pronunciation of the tetragrammaton, the four-letter word YHWH.  When Moses asked what His name was to take back to the Hebrews in Egypt, God replied, “I AM THAT I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה ehyeh esher ehyeh): and he said, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel, I AM (אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה, ehyeh, 1st person singular, giving God's declaration of His name) has sent me to you” (Exod 3:14).  Thus God revealed to Moses the very essential meaning of His name as Yahweh (יְהוָ֞ה, Yahweh, 3rd person singular, the response of the people of God, He is).  There is a strong indication that Jesus (or Yeshua, Yahweh is salvation) used this name and its divine implication to apply to himself when he said, “Before Abraham was, I AM” (ἐγὼ εἰμί, egō eimi) (John 8:58).  Thus, the very Person who spoke to Moses out of the burning bush was the very same Person who addressed the startled Jews in the Gospel of John.

For a more complete discussion of the personal name of God, see the passage in Exodus in which He reveals His name to Moses, Exodus 3:14, 15.

A Name of God (אֱלֹהִים; 'elohim)

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House
אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym ·Strong's H430

This is a generic name for the divine being. In the Hebrew Bible, the word is regularly used in the plural in reference to the God of Israel but in regard to His majesty or intensity. The plural has a third person singular with the God of Israel, but a third plural with foreign deities.

Abba, Father

Word Study | Hershel Wayne House • Steve Stanley
Ἀββᾶ Abbâ ·Strong's G5

This Aramaic term is used only three times in the NT and approximately 80 times in the writings of the early church fathers when quoting or paraphrasing Jesus’ words. It is translated by the very next word in this verse as ὁ πατήρ (ho pater) “the Father,” as it is in all three NT uses. Jesus spoke in Aramaic, and Hebrew, both languages being used in Israel. In Jesus’ day, abba was used for the father in the family, and was a customary title for God in prayer among the Jews. It was eventually taken over by Greek-speaking Christians as a liturgical formula. Some posit that abba is equivalent to “daddy,” an American English term for “father.” This assumes that the American informality expressed by children toward their father would have an analogy in Jesus’ culture, an assumption difficult to sustain. It is, therefore, not appropriate to refer to God as “daddy.” Linguistically, then, abba means "father" in Hebrew, Greek and English. It must be noted, however, that while “father” is a term of respect in biblical literature, it is also a term of affection, very deep and abiding affection. With His use of “Abba,” Jesus expresses His respectful and intimate relationship with His Heavenly Father in prayer, a wonderful example for all believers.

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Job 36 (WEB)

1Elihu also continued, and said,

2“Bear with me a little, and I will show you;

for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

3I will get my knowledge from afar,

and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

4For truly my words are not false.

One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

5“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone.

He is mighty in strength of understanding.

6He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked,

but gives justice to the afflicted.

7He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous,

but with kings on the throne,

he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

8If they are bound in fetters,

and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

9then he shows them their work,

and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

10He also opens their ears to instruction,

and commands that they return from iniquity.

11If they listen and serve him,

they will spend their days in prosperity,

and their years in pleasures.

12But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword;

they will die without knowledge.

13“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger.

They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

14They die in youth.

Their life perishes among the unclean.

15He delivers the afflicted by their affliction,

and opens their ear in oppression.

16Yes, he would have allured you out of distress,

into a wide place, where there is no restriction.

That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

17“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked.

Judgment and justice take hold of you.

18Don’t let riches entice you to wrath,

neither let the great size of a bribe turn you aside.

19Would your wealth sustain you in distress,

or all the might of your strength?

20Don’t desire the night,

when people are cut off in their place.

21Take heed, don’t regard iniquity;

for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

22Behold, God is exalted in his power.

Who is a teacher like him?

23Who has prescribed his way for him?

Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?

24“Remember that you magnify his work,

about which men have sung.

25All men have looked on it.

Man sees it afar off.

26Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him.

The number of his years is unsearchable.

27For he draws up the drops of water,

which distill in rain from his vapor,

28which the skies pour down

and which drop on man abundantly.

29Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds

and the thunderings of his pavilion?

30Behold, he spreads his light around him.

He covers the bottom of the sea.

31For by these he judges the people.

He gives food in abundance.

32He covers his hands with the lightning,

and commands it to strike the mark.

33Its noise tells about him,

and the livestock also, concerning the storm that comes up.

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