10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
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But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. …
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends. I. He comes up with them as one that understood the matter in dispute as well as they, and did not need to be taught by them, Job 13:1 , 2 . They compelled him, as the Corinthians did Paul, to commend himself and his own knowledge, yet not in a way of self-applause, but of self-justification. All he had before said his eye…
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