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Job 13:6

Job 13:6
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Hear now my reasoning,.... Job entreats his friends that they would be no longer speakers, but hearers; that they would vouchsafe to sit still, and hear what he had to say; though he was greatly…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 13:1-12

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,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 13:6-12

Severe rebuke of the three friends, in which (1) they are charged with partiality for God, and with acting the advocate for Him (Job 13:6-8); and (2) they are threatened with the chastisement of God…

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