Job 36:3

“I will fetch my knowledge from afar, etc.] Not from himself; for it is but a small share of knowledge that a man gets of himself, or attains to by the light of nature, and especially concerning God and divine things; but from others, either from persons that lived in former ages, and in foreign countries; it being usual for men desirous of acquiring knowledge to travel into distant parts for it; and such were generally much esteemed of, and the knowledge they professed to have got and published; as the queen of Sheba came from the further parts of the earth to hear and learn the wisdom of Solomon, (<111001>1 Kings 10:1): or rather the sense is, he would fetch the knowledge he should now…”

“from afar--not trite commonplaces, but drawn from God's mighty works. ascribe righteousness--whereas Job ascribed unrighteousness (Job 34:10, Job 34:12). A man, in enquiring into God's ways, should at the outset presume they are all just, be willing to find them so, and expect that the result of investigation will prove them to be so; such a one will never be disappointed [BARNES].”

“I will fetch my knowledge from afar - What I say shall not be mere commonplace. It shall be the result of reflection on subjects that lie out of the ordinary range of thought. The idea is, that he did not mean to go over the ground that had been already trodden, or to suggest such reflections as would occur to anyone, but that he meant to bring his illustrations from abstruser matters, and from things that had escaped their attention. He in fact appeals to the various operations of nature - the rain, the dew, the light, the instincts of the animal creation, the vicissitudes of the seasons, the laws of heat and cold, and shows that all these prove that God is inscrutably wise and gloriously…”

“Afar - From remote times, and places, and things. I will not confine my discourse to thy particular case, but wilt justify God by declaring his great and glorious works of creation and providence both in the heaven and in the earth, and the manner of his dealing with men in other parts and ages of the world. Ascribe - I will clear and maintain this truth, that God is righteous in all his ways. Job 36:4”

“fetch: Job 28:12, Job 28:13, Job 28:20-24, Job 32:8; Pro 2:4, Pro 2:5; Mat 2:1, Mat 2:2, Mat 12:42; Act 8:27-40; Rom 10:6-8; Jam 1:5, Jam 1:17, Jam 3:17 ascribe: Job 32:2, Job 34:5, Job 34:10-12; Deu 32:4; Psa 11:7, Psa 145:17; Jer 12:1; Dan 9:7, Dan 9:14; Rom 3:25, Rom 3:26, Rom 9:14; Rev 15:3 Job 36:4”