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Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, `You have committed unrighteousness?`
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God's Unquestionable Authority
All commentators agree that this verse powerfully affirms God's absolute sovereignty and independence. No one can command, advise, or prescribe a course of action for God. As the ultimate source of wisdom, He is not subject to human counsel or direction. His ways are His own, established by His supreme authority.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Who hath enjoined him his way? - Who has prescribed to him what he should do? Who is superior to him and has marked out for him the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Who has enjoined him his way ? &c.] He teaches men his own ways, the methods of his grace and mercy towards them; an…
Elihu shows that Job caused the continuation of his own trouble. He cautions him not to persist in obstinacy. Even good people need to be kept to t…
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13th Century
Catholic
After Elihu rejected Job’s claim to be just, he now rejects Job's words because he believed Job had spoken against the justice of God's judgment. F…
