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Gill's Exposition
Will you speak wickedly for God?.... As he suggests they did; they spoke for God, and pleaded for the honour of his justice, by asserting he did not afflict good men, which they thought was contrary…
Barnes' Notes
Will ye speak wickedly for God? - That is, will you maintain unjust principles with a view to honor or to vindicate God? Job refers doubtless to the positions which they had defended in regard to the…
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
speak wickedly Or, wrongously, lit. speak iniquity, ch. Job 5:16, cf. Zophar's recommendation to Job, ch. Job 11:14. ForGod means in His behalf, in His defence; and the words for Godare emphatic.
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