10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
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Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-16)Job’s friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows, I. That it was their folly to talk so (Job 17:10): “ Return, and come now , be convinced that you are in an error, and let me persuade you to be of my mind; for I cannot find one wise man among you , that knows how to explain the difficulties of God’s providence or how to apply…
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