1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Usually young men are the disputants and old men the moderators; but here, when old men were the disputants, as a rebuke to them for their unbecoming heat, a young man is raised up to be the moderator. Divers of Job’s friends were present, that came to visit him and to receive instruction. Now here we have, I. The reason why his three friends were now silent. They ceased to answer him , and let hi…
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