5Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
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For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. …
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? …
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-14)Eliphaz and his companions had condemned Job, in general, as a wicked man and a hypocrite; but none of them had descended to particulars, nor drawn up any articles of impeachment against him, until Eliphaz did so here, where he positively and expressly charges him with many high crimes and misdemeanours, which, if he had really been guilty of them, might well have justified them in their harsh cen…
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