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Gill's Exposition
Shall vain words have an end?.... Or "words of wind" (k), vain empty words, great swelling words of vanity, mere bubbles that look big, and have nothing in them; here Job retorts what Eliphaz had…
Barnes' Notes
Many such things - That is, either things fitted to provoke and irritate, or sentiments that are common-place. There was nothing new in what they said, and nothing to the purpose. Miserable comforters…
Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly take, which is to undervalue one another's sense, and wisdom, and management. The longer the saw of contention is drawn the hotter…
Cambridge Bible
many such things Job cannot help expressing his impatience of the sameness and the amount of his friends" talk, and its uselessness or even worse.
miserable comforters The margin is, troublesome…
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