Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
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Gill's Exposition
Even as I have seen,.... Here he goes about to prove, by his own experience, the destruction of wicked men; and would intimate, that Job was such an one, because of the ruin he was fallen into:
they…
Barnes' Notes
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? - The object of this question is manifestly to show to Job the inconsistency of the feelings which he had evinced. He claimed to be a…
Eliphaz here advances another argument to prove Job a hypocrite, and will have not only his impatience under his afflictions to be evidence against him but even his afflictions themselves, being so…
Cambridge Bible
Eliphaz would have Job remember that the afflictions of the righteous are disciplinary, and not designed for their destruction who ever perished being innocent? He puts his principle first negatively,…
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