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All my inward friends - Margin, “the men of my secret.” The meaning is those who were admitted to the intimacy of friendship or who were per…

My inward friends. —That is, my intimate friends: the men of my counsel who are familiar with my secret affairs.

There is no skin on the teeth, or hardly any, and, therefore, Job means that there was next to nothing of him left, like the skin of his teeth.

All my inward friends abhorred me
Or "the men of my secret" F13; who were so very familiar with him, that…

How sorrowful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God? Seared consciences will feel it in the afterlife, but do not fea…

In the previous discourse, it seems Bildad intended two things. First, he intended to refute Job for his stupidity, pride, and anger ([Reference Jo…
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