Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
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Gill's Exposition
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless,.... Meaning himself; who was like a fatherless child, stripped of all his mercies, of his children, his substance, and his health; and was in a most miserable,…
Barnes' Notes
Do ye imagine to reprove words? - A considerable variety of interpretation has occurred in regard to this verse. Dr. Good, following Schultens, supposes that the word translated wind here רוּח rûach…
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…
Cambridge Bible
do ye imagine that is, is it your purpose? think ye?
and the speeches… which are as wind Rather, though the speeches of one that is desperate go into the wind.
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