Job 33:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 33

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²Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

Job 33:2 —

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Cross-References

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Job 3:1
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Matthew 5:2
And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
Job 31:30
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
Psalms 78:2
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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Job 33:1-33. Address to Job, as (Job 32:1-22) TO THE Friends. 2. mouth--rather, “palate,” whereby the taste discerns. Every man speaks with his mouth, but few, as Elihu, try their words with discrimination first, and only say what is really good (Job 6:30; 12:11). hath spoken--rather, “proceeds to speak.”