5 Behold, God is mighty, and yet doth not act scornfully,

Mighty in power of understanding.

6 He preserveth not the life of the ungodly,

And to the afflicted He giveth right.

7 He withdraweth not His eyes from the righteous,

But with kings on the throne

He establisheth them for ever, and they are exalted.

The obj. that must be mentally supplied to ימאס ולא is, as in Job 42:6, to be derived from the connection. The idea of the verb is, as in Job 8:20 : He is exalted, without however looking down disdainfully (non despicit) from His height, or more definitely: without setting Himself above the justice due to even the meanest of His creatures - great in power of heart (comp. Job 34:33 אנשׁי לבב, Arab. ûlû-l-elbâb), i.e., understanding (νοῦς πνεῦμα), to see through right and wrong everywhere and altogether. Job 36:6, Job 36:7 describe how His rule among men evinces this not merely outward but spiritual superiority coupled with condescension to the lowly. The notion of the object, ואת־מלכים לכּסּא (as Isaiah 9:11 the subject), becomes the more distinctly prominent by virtue of the fut. consec. which follows like a conclusion, and takes it up again. Ewald thinks this explanation contrary to the accents and the structure of the sentence itself; but it is perfectly consistent with the former, and indisputably syntactic (Ges. 129, 2, b, and Ew. himself, 344, b). Psalm 9:5, comp. Psalm 132:12, Isaiah 47:1, shows how לכסא is intended (He causes them to sit upon the throne). Job 5:11; 1 Samuel 2:8; Psalm 113:7. are parallel passages.

Job 36:13 Parallel Commentaries

heap

Numbers 32:14 And, behold, you are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men...

2 Chronicles 28:13,22 And said to them, You shall not bring in the captives here: for whereas we have offended against the LORD already...

Romans 2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation...

they

Job 15:4 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

Job 27:8-10 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul...

Job 35:9,10 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty...

Matthew 22:12,13 And he said to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless...

bindeth

Job 36:8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be held in cords of affliction;

Psalm 107:10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;