Job 27:1
Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:
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In The King James Version
Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
In Context
2As God lives, who has taken away my judgment, and the Almighty, who has led my soul to bitterness,
Cross References
Numbers 24:3taking up his parable, he said: “Balaam, the son of Beor, the man whose eye has been obstructed,
Job 29:1Job also added to this, using figures of speech, and he said:
Psalms 78:2They have placed the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth.
Matthew Henry on Job 27:1
Job had sometimes complained of his friends that they were so eager in disputing that they would scarcely let him put in a word: "Suffer me that I may speak;" and, "O that you would hold your peace!" But now, it seems, they were out of breath, and left him room to say what he would. Either they were themselves convinced that Job was in the right or they despaired of convincing him that he was in the wrong; and therefore they threw away their weapons and gave up the cause. Job was too hard for them, and forced them… Read the whole commentary →