They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
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Gill's Exposition
For now ye are nothing,.... Once they seemed to be something to him; he thought them men wise, good, and religious, kind, bountiful, and tenderhearted; but now he found them otherwise, they were…
Barnes' Notes
They were confounded because they had hoped - The caravans of Tema and Sheba. The word “confounded” here means ashamed. It represents the state of feeling which one has who has met with…
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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