Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
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Gill's Exposition
How forcible are right words!.... That are according to right reason; such as may be called strong reasons, or bony arguments, as in Isa 41:21; there are strength and weight in such words, reasonings,…
Barnes' Notes
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue - That is, give me any real instruction, or show me what is my duty, and I will be silent. By this he means that Eliphaz had really imparted no instruction, but had…
Poor Job goes on here to upbraid his friends with their unkindness and the hard usage they gave him. He here appeals to themselves concerning several things which tended both to justify him and to…
In answer to their covert insinuations Job demands that they should bring home to him the sins of which they suspected him.
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