5If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee. …
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.
Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
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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