Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Ayub 36:11

Accordingly, he berates his companions for making statements that they knew in their hearts to be the opposite of the truth. To suggest that a wicked person’s punishment is that his children will perish and his possessions waste away after his death is nonsense. For what does a person like that care about what happens to his home afterwards, just so long as he spends his days well and his years pleasantly (Job 36:11)? The calamities should befall him, the person himself (Ch.27:12-23).

According to Shemot Rabbah 9,9 (on 7,17) the difference between G’d striking man and man striking his fellow man is that when man attacks someone he is anxious to do so suddenly so as to preserve the advantage of surprise. Not so G’d. G’d gives fair warning to enable man to fall in with His wishes before he is taught a painful lesson. G’d warned Pharaoh in seven out of the ten plagues in order to afford him an opportunity to escape the plague by releasing the Israelites. Job 36,22 testifies to this attribute of G’d when Elihu proclaimed: “See, G’d is beyond reach in His power, who governs like Him?” The author meant that although G’d does not have any need to do so, He affords every sinner the opportunity to return to Him in penitence before punishing him. Only if the sinner fails to avail himself of such an opportunity does G’d carry out His threat as we know from Job 36,11-12: “if they serve obediently they will spend their days in happiness, their years in delight; but if they are not obedient, they shall perish by the sword.”