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Job 34:26
He strikes them for their wickedness in full view,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Elihu addresses Job and his companions, explaining God’s immediate judgment on corrupt leaders who have abandoned His ways.
The words — סְפָקָם (se.fa.Ka/m) means "he strikes them," and בִּמְקוֹם רֹאִים (bi/m.Kom ro.'Im) translates literally to "in a place of those who see."
The thread — Public divine judgment recurs in Exodus 14:30 where Israel sees the Egyptians dead on the shore, and Psalms 58:10 where the righteous witness God's vengeance.
Why it lands — The text states God punishes the wicked openly, requiring the reader to acknowledge that divine accountability operates without concealment or delay.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
Cross-references
- Psalms 58:10 The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
- Exodus 14:30 That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.
- Deuteronomy 13:9 Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
- Deuteronomy 21:21 Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
- 2 Samuel 12:11 This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
- Isaiah 66:24 “As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”
- 1 Timothy 5:20 But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.
- 1 Timothy 5:24 The sins of some men are obvious, going ahead of them to judgment; but the sins of others do not surface until later.
- Revelation 18:9 Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
- Revelation 18:20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.