20Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
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For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? …
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-20)Elihu here addresses himself closely to Job, desiring him to apply what he had hitherto said to himself. He begs that he would hearken to this discourse (Job 37:14), that he would pause awhile: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God . What we hear is not likely to profit us unless we consider it, and we are not likely to consider things fully unless we stand still and compose ourselve…
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