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Gill's Exposition
O that my words were now written!.... Not his things (q), as some render it, his affairs, the transactions of his life; that so it might appear with what uprightness and integrity he had lived, and…
Barnes' Notes
Why do ye persecute me as God? - As God has done. That is, without giving me any reason for it; accusing me of crimes without proof, and condeming me without mitigation. That there is here an improper…
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
satisfied with my flesh Why cannot ye be sated with devouring me? The figure is sufficiently plain. In Oriental phrase "to devour or eat the parts or pieces of one" is to calumniate him, to accuse…
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