With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
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Gill's Exposition
With us are both the grayheaded,.... The grayheaded man, or one that is so, it is in the singular number; gray hairs are a sign of old age, and an emblem of wisdom, see Job 12:12; to which words…
Barnes' Notes
With us are both the gray headed - That is, some of us who are here are much older than thy father; or we express the sentiments of such aged men. Job had admitted Job 12:12, that with the aged was…
Eliphaz here falls very foul upon Job, because he contradicted what he and his colleagues had said, and did not acquiesce in it and applaud it, as they expected. Proud people are apt thus to take it…
Cambridge Bible
This verse should probably read,
Among us is one both grayheaded and very aged,
One older in days than thy father.
Eliphaz with a dignified indirectness in which, however, a certain personal…
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