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- Job
- Chapter 34
- Verse 7
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Gill's Exposition
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity,.... The worst of men, who make it their constant business and employment to commit sin:
and walketh with wicked men; the most abandoned of…
Barnes' Notes
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? - A similar image occurs in Job 15:16. The idea is, that he was full of reproachful speeches respecting God; of the language of irreverence…
Adam Clarke
Drinketh up scorning like water? - This is a repetition of the charge made against Job by Eliphaz, Job 15:16. It is a proverbial expression, and seems to be formed, as a metaphor, from a camel…
Here, I. Elihu humbly addresses himself to the auditors, and endeavours, like an orator, to gain their good-will and their favourable attention. 1. He calls them wise men, and men that had knowledge,…
Cambridge Bible
Elihu cannot restrain his abhorrence of Job's sentiments. By scorningis meant impiety and scepticism. On the figure comp. ch. Job 15:16.
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