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5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

Job 11:5

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

It is sad to see what intemperate passions even wise and good men are sometimes betrayed into by the heat of disputation, of which Zophar here is an instance. Eliphaz began with a very modest preface, Job 4:2. Bildad was a little more rough upon Job, Job 8:2. But Zophar falls upon him without mercy, and gives him very bad language: Should a man full of talk be justified? And should thy lies make m…

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