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Gill's Exposition
And that ye would altogether hold your peace,.... Since what they said of him was not true, nor anything to the purpose, or that tended to the comfort of his afflicted soul, but the reverse; and…
Barnes' Notes
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! - You would show your wisdom by silence. Since you can say nothing that is adapted to give comfort, or to explain the true state of the case, it would be…
Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends.
I. He comes up with them as one that understood the matter in dispute as well as they, and did not need to be taught by them,…
Cambridge Bible
This verse is suggested by the last clause of the preceding their impotence to help was such that their silence would be the most helpful thing they could offer. There is a final sarcasm at Zophar's…
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