11Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
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What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; …
But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: …
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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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