13Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. …
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when it dashes against a rock. Job had been courting death, as that which would be the happy period of his miseries, Job 3:1-26. For this Eliphaz had gravely reproved him, but he, instead of unsaying what he had said, says it here again with more vehemence than before; and it is as ill…
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