4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
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But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The reproofs Job here gives to his friends, whether they were just or no, were very sharp, and may serve for a rebuke to all that are proud and scornful, and an exposure of their folly. I. He upbraids them with their conceitedness of themselves, and the good opinion they seemed to have of their own wisdom in comparison with him, than which nothing is more weak and unbecoming, nor better deserves t…
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