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Gill's Exposition
All my inward friends abhorred me,.... Or "the men of my secret" (m); who were so very familiar with him, that he imparted the secrets of his heart, and the most private affairs of life, unto them,…
Barnes' Notes
Yea, young children - Margin, or “the wicked.” This difference between the text and the margin arises from the ambiguity of the original word - עוילים ‛ăvı̂ylı̂ym. The word עויל ‛ăvı̂yl (whence our…
Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job's complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon…
Cambridge Bible
Another affecting touch the little children mock his ineffectual attempts to rise from the ground.
children despised Better, despise.
I arose, and they spake Better, if I would arise they speak they…