2Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
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After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Several arguments Elihu here uses to persuade Job not only to give him a patient hearing, but to believe that he designed him a good office, and to take it kindly, and be willing to receive the instructions he was now about to give him. Let Job consider, 1. That Elihu does not join with his three friends against him. He has, in the foregoing chapter, declared his dislike of their proceedings, disc…
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