9What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
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What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold,(I speak foolishly,) I am bold also. …
How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is? …
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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