3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: …
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here, I. Zophar begins very passionately, and seems to be in a great heat at what Job had said. Being resolved to condemn Job for a bad man, he was much displeased that he talked so like a good man, and, as it should seem, broke in upon him, and began abruptly (Job 20:2): Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer . He takes no notice of what Job had said to move their pity, or to evidence his ow…
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