To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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Gill's Exposition
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook,.... Meaning his three friends, represented by Eliphaz, who were of the same sentiments with him, and behaved towards Job as he did: these were his…
Barnes' Notes
To him that is afflicted - Margin, “melteth.” The word here used (מס mâs) is from מסס mâsas, to melt, flow down, waste away, and here means one who pines away, or is consumed under calamities. The…
Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here…
Job's sorrowful disappointment at the position taken up towards him by his three friends
Job had freely expressed his misery in ch. 3, believing that the sympathies of his friends were entirely with…
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