2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
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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,