3Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
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If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? …
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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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