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Gill's Exposition
They were amazed,.... They were like persons thunderstruck, quite surprised and astonished to hear a young man talk after this manner:
they answered no more; as they had ceased to answer Job, they…
Barnes' Notes
They were amazed - There also are the words of Elihu, and are designed to express his astonishment that the three friends of Job did not answer him. He says that they were completely silenced, and he…
Adam Clarke
They were amazed - Mr. Good translates: "They (the speeches) are dissipated; they no longer produce effect; the words have flirted away from them." Your words, being without proper reference and…
Three things here apologize for Elihu's interposing as he does in this controversy which had already been canvassed by such acute and learned disputants: -
1. That the stage was clear, and he did not…
Turning from the three friends Elihu seems to speak in soliloquy and present to his own mind the singular situation: the three friends are discomfited before Job and reduced to silence; this should…
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