Job 36:25
 Job 36:25 
New International Version (©2011)
All humanity has seen it; mortals gaze on it from afar.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Everyone has seen these things, though only from a distance.

English Standard Version (©2001)
All mankind has looked on it; man beholds it from afar.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"All men have seen it; Man beholds from afar.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
All mankind has seen it; people have looked at it from a distance.

International Standard Version (©2012)
All of mankind sees him; human beings observe him from afar off."

NET Bible (©2006)
All humanity has seen it; people gaze on it from afar.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Every person has seen it. Mortals have looked at it from a distance.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

American King James Version
Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

American Standard Version
All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.

Darby Bible Translation
All men look at it; man beholdeth it afar off.

English Revised Version
All men have looked thereon; man beholdeth it afar off.

Webster's Bible Translation
Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

World English Bible
All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.

Young's Literal Translation
All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

36:24-33 Elihu endeavours to fill Job with high thought of God, and so to persuade him into cheerful submission to his providence. Man may see God's works, and is capable of discerning his hand in them, which the beasts are not, therefore they ought to give him the glory. But while the worker of iniquity ought to tremble, the true believer should rejoice. Children should hear with pleasure their Father's voice, even when he speaks in terror to his enemies. There is no light but there may be a cloud to intercept it. The light of the favour of God, the light of his countenance, the most blessed light of all, even that light has many a cloud. The clouds of our sins cause the Lord to his face, and hinder the light of his loving-kindness from shining on our souls.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 25. - Every man may see it; rather, sees it, or has seen it. Man may behold it afar off; rather, beholds it, or has beheld it, from afar. Job's afflictions have drawn all eyes upon them - not only those of his neighbours, but of many who look on "from afar."


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Every man may see it,.... Not only was to be seen by the wise and learned, the just and good, but by the common people; whether it is to be understood of the works of creation, or of the afflictive providences of God in general, or of Job's afflictions in particular;

man may behold it afar off; as to time, from the creation of the world to the present time, as Jarchi; or as to place, from the heaven, so distant, where are the sun, moon, and stars; and which, though so far off, are easily beheld; or as to the manner of seeing them, not darkly, imperfectly, and in a confused manner, as things at a distance are seen, so some understand it; but rather clearly and plainly, as things easy to be seen are clearly discerned at a distance; and it signifies that the work of God here meant is so visible, that he must be quite blind and stupid that cannot see it; it may be seen, as it were, with half an eye, and a great way off; he that runs may see and read.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

25. See—namely, with wondering admiration [Maurer].

man may behold—rather, "(yet) mortals (a different Hebrew word from 'man') behold it (only) from afar off," see but a small "part" (Job 26:14).


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Elihu Shows God's Justice and Power
24Remember that you magnify his work, which men behold. 25Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. 26Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. …

Job 36:24 Remember to extol his work, which people have praised in song.
Job 36:26 How great is God--beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.