18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
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For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. …
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-35)Eliphaz, having reproved Job for his answers, here comes to maintain his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would infer that those who are miserable are certainly wicked, and that therefore Job was so. Observe, I. His solemn preface to this discourse, in which he bespeaks Job’s attention, which he had litt…
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