21For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. …
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-21)Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here complains of, as an aggravation of his calamity and a further excuse of his desire to die; for what satisfaction could he ever expect in this world when those that should have been his comforters thus prove…
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