10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion. …
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: …
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Eliphaz here falls very foul upon Job, because he contradicted what he and his colleagues had said, and did not acquiesce in it and applaud it, as they expected. Proud people are apt thus to take it very much amiss if they may not have leave to dictate and give law to all about them, and to censure those as ignorant and obstinate, and all that is naught, who cannot in every thing say as they say.…
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