3Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
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Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. …
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, …
Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? …
But Job answered and said, …
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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