3I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Once more Elihu begs the patience of the auditory, and Job’s particularly, for he has not said all that he has to say, but he will not detain them long. Stand about me a little (so some read it), Job 36:2. “Let me have your attendance, your attention, awhile longer, and I will speak but this once, as plainly and as much to the purpose as I can.” To gain this he pleads, 1. That he had a good cause,…
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