2What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
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But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
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.
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. …
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. …
Commentary
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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