2How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
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Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. …
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. …
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. …
The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came. …
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)One would not have thought that Job, when he was in so much pain and misery, could banter his friend as he does here and make himself merry with the impertinency of his discourse. Bildad thought that he had made a fine speech, that the matter was so weighty, and the language so fine, that he had gained the reputation both of an oracle and of an orator; but Job peevishly enough shows that his perfo…
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