2 What ye know, I know also: I am not inferior to you.
I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who knoweth not such things as these?
Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself? What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?
For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.
Hear attentively the roar of his voice, and the murmur going forth from his mouth.
And it came to pass after Jehovah had spoken these words to Job, that Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken rightly of me, like my servant Job.
But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].
For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with [it]. For I reckon that in nothing I am behind those who are in surpassing degree apostles.
Again I say, Let not any one think me to be a fool; but if otherwise, receive me then even as a fool, that *I* also may boast myself some little. What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting. Since many boast according to flesh, *I* also will boast.
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Commentary on Job 13 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 13
Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in then: for,
Job 13:1-12
Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends.
Job 13:13-22
Job here takes fresh hold, fast hold, of his integrity, as one that was resolved not to let it go, nor suffer it to be wrested from him. His firmness in this matter is commendable and his warmth excusable.
Job 13:23-28
Here,