Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
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Gill's Exposition
Return, I pray you,.... From the ill opinion you have of me, and from your hard censures, and entertain other sentiments concerning me: or it may be, upon these words of Job his friends might be…
Barnes' Notes
Now, therefore, be content - Rosenmuller has better rendered this, “if it please you.” The sense is, “if you are willing, look upon me.” That is, “if you are disposed, you may take a careful view of…
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
The verse means as a whole,
Now, therefore, be pleased to look upon me,
I will not surely lie to your face!
"Be pleased," or, as we say, be good enough. "To your face," as in ch. Job 1:11. Job…