2Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
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Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Commentary
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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