Bible Strands
Job 36:7
He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Elihu, the young speaker of chapters 32–37, addresses Job directly, inserting his own defense of divine justice between the friends' arguments and Job's final speech.
The words — יִגְרַע (yigra', "he withdraws") is the negated verb at the verse's center: the claim is not that God looks, but that He does not look away.
The thread — The "eyes on the righteous" motif recurs in Psalms 34:15 and 33:18; the enthronement language ("seats them among princes") is explicit in 1 Samuel 2:8.
Why it lands — The verse equates divine attention with promotion, not merely observation; a reader must decide whether they can hold that God's watching is itself an act of elevation, or whether they have already reduced it to surveillance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
Cross-references
- Psalms 34:15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
- Psalms 33:18 Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
- 1 Samuel 2:8 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- Psalms 113:7 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
- 2 Thessalonians 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
- Esther 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
- Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
- 1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
- Job 1:3 and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
- Genesis 41:40 You shall be in charge of my house, and all my people are to obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”