1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
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And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Job’s discourse here is called a parable (mashal ), the title of Solomon’s proverbs, because it was grave and weighty, and very instructive, and he spoke as one having authority. It comes from a word that signifies to rule , or have dominion ; and some think it intimates that Job now triumphed over his opponents, and spoke as one that had baffled them. We say of an excellent preacher that he knows…
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