Job 33:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,

Job 33:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 13:14
Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
Jeremiah 29:23
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.

Topics

Self-Righteousness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-13)

In these verses, I. Elihu particularly charges Job with some indecent expressions that had dropped from him, reflecting upon the justice and goodness of God in his dealings with him. He does not ground the charge upon report, but was himself an ear-witness of what he here reproves him for (Job 33:8): “ Thou hast spoken it in my hearing, and in the hearing of all this company.” He had it not at sec…

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

(vv. 8)

8. thy words--(Job 10:7; 16:17; 23:11, 12; 27:5, 6; 29:14). In Job 9:30; 13:23, Job had acknowledged sin; but the general spirit of his words was to maintain himself to be “clean,” and to charge God with injustice. He went too far on the opposite side in opposing the friends’ false charge of hypocrisy. Even the godly, though willing to confess themselves sinners in general, often dislike sin in pa…