18For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. …
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. …
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)Three things here apologize for Elihu’s interposing as he does in this controversy which had already been canvassed by such acute and learned disputants:— 1. That the stage was clear, and he did not break in upon any of the managers on either side: They were amazed (Job 32:15); they stood still, and answered no more , Job 32:16. They not only left off speaking themselves, but they stood still, to…
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