It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
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Gill's Exposition
Shall mortal man be more just than God?.... Poor, weak, frail, dying man, and so sinful, as his mortality shows, which is the effect of sin; how should such a man be more righteous than God? who is so…
Barnes' Notes
It stood still - It took a fixed position and looked on me. It at first glided by, or toward him, then stood in an immovable position, as if to attract his attention, and to prepare him for the solemn…
Eliphaz, having undertaken to convince Job of the sin and folly of his discontent and impatience, here vouches a vision he had been favoured with, which he relates to Job for his conviction. What…
Cambridge Bible
it stood still Itis the mysterious object in his presence.
there was silence, and I heard a voice lit. stillness and a voice I heard, i. e. probably, I heard a still voice; cf. "whisper," Job 4:4.