Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
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Gill's Exposition
Because they turned back from him,.... Became apostates from the ways and worship of God, as the posterity of Cain before the flood, and the posterity of Ham after it; who had been educated and…
Barnes' Notes
Therefore he knoweth their works - Or, “Because he knoweth their works.” The word (לכן lākên) here rendered “therefore” is evidently used as denoting that since or because he was intimately…
Adam Clarke
He knoweth their works - He knows what they have done, and what they are plotting to do.
He overturneth them in the night - In the revolution of a single night the plenitude of power on which the day…
Elihu here addresses himself more directly to Job. He had spoken to the rest (Job 34:10) as men of understanding; now, speaking to Job; he puts an if upon his understanding: If thou hast…
Armed with such omniscient insight (therefore, Job 34:34) He knoweth men's works, and His judgment overtakes them without fail.
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