10 Return, and come in, I pray you, And I find not among you a wise man.
Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again -- my righteousness `is' in it.
And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.
What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?
For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.
where `is' the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?
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Commentary on Job 17 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 17
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His friends becoming strange to him, which greatly grieved him, he makes death and the grave familiar to him, which yielded him some comfort.
Job 17:1-9
Job's discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads:-
Job 17:10-16
Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows,