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To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
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Suffering as Rescue
Commentators emphasize that God's purpose in allowing suffering is redemptive, not merely punitive. Charles Ellicott calls this the 'keynote of Elihu’s doctrine,' where God's actions are for education and discipline. Charles Spurgeon vividly pictures this as a Great Shepherd using 'black dogs' (pain and sickness) to guide wandering sheep back to safety and life.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
To bring back his soul from the pit - To keep him from descending to the grave, and to the dark world beneath. He takes these metho…
19th Century
Anglican
To bring back his soul. —Here, again, is the very keynote of Elihu’s doctrine. God’s dealings are for the purpose of educ…
Baptist
Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
To bring back his soul from the pit From the pit of the grave; at the mouth or on the brink of which he seemed to be in the ap…
Elihu shows that God's great and gracious design toward humankind is to save them from being forever miserable and to bring them to be forever happ…
13th Century
Catholic
Elihu has already proposed the things he intended to debate with Job. Since Job, before he spoke the words Elihu cited (Job 33:10–11), …
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