Job 36 · Verse 15

Job 36:15

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
Job 36:15, King James Version

Job 36:15 in other translations

BSBGod rescues the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ears in oppression.
WEBHe delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
ASVHe delivereth the afflicted by their affliction, And openeth their ear in oppression.
YLTHe draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear.
DARBYBut he delivereth the afflicted in his affliction, and openeth their ear in their oppression.
BBEHe makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.
WebsterHe delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

What does Job 36:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 36:13-15

13-15. Same sentiment as Job 36:11, 12, expanded. hypocrites--or, the ungodly [Maurer]; but "hypocrites" is perhaps a distinct class from the openly wicked (Job 36:12). heap up wrath--of God against themselves (Ro 2:5). Umbreit translates, "nourish their wrath against God," instead of "crying" unto Him. This suits well the parallelism and the Hebrew. But the English Version gives a good parallelism, "hypocrites"…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 And openeth their ears in oppression - He will let them know for what end they are afflicted, and why he permits them to be oppressed. The word יגל yigel might be translated he shall make them exult, or sing with joy, in oppression; like the three Hebrews in the burning fiery furnace.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 36:15-23
Elihu shows that Job caused the continuance of his own trouble. He cautions him not to persist in frowardness. Even good men need to be kept to their duty by the fear of God's wrath; the wisest and best have enough in them to deserve his stroke. Let not Job continue his unjust quarrel with God and his providence. And let us never dare to think favourably of sin, never indulge it, nor allow ourselves in it. Elihu thinks Job needed this caution, he having chosen rather to gratify his pride and humour by contending with God, than to mortify them by submitting, and accepting the punishment. It is absurd for us to think to teach Him who is himself the Fountain of light, truth, knowledge, and instruction. He teaches by the Bible, and that is the best book; teaches by his Son, and he is the best Master. He is just in all proceedings.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Job 36:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יְחַלֵּ֣ץye.cha.Letzhe rescuesH2502
עָנִ֣י'a.Ni[the] afflictedH6041
בְעָנְי֑וֹve.'a.ne.Yoby affliction hisH6040
וְיִ֖גֶלve.Yi.geland he uncoversH1540
בַּלַּ֣חַץba.La.chatzby <the> oppressionH3906
אָזְנָֽם\׃'a.ze.Namear theirH241

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 36:15

  • Job 36:10

    He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
delivereth.
6
poor. or, afflicted. openeth.
10; 2Ch 12:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 36:14

    They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

  • Job 36:15

    He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

  • Job 36:16

    Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

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Job 36:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Al pobre librará de su pobreza, y en la aflicción despertará su oído.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Il délivre le malheureux dans son malheur, et lui ouvre l’oreille dans l’oppression.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Den Elenden errettet er in seinem Elend, und in der Drangsal öffnet er ihnen das Ohr.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Eripiet de angustia sua pauperem, et revelabit in tribulatione aurem ejus.