25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth. …
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-30)Poor Job goes on here to upbraid his friends with their unkindness and the hard usage they gave him. He here appeals to themselves concerning several things which tended both to justify him and to condemn them. If they would but think impartially, and speak as they thought, they could not but own, I. That, though he was necessitous, yet he was not craving, nor burdensome to his friends. Those that…
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