Should your lies - Margin, “devices.” Rosenmuller renders this, “should men bear your boastings with silence?” Dr. Good, “before you would m…

This was a very bitter and cruel speech, and Zophar was not using the language of friendship, or even of common courtesy. First, he charged Job wit…

Should your lies make men hold their peace ?
&c.] By which he means, either lies in common, untruths wilfully told, …

Zophar attacked Job with great vehemence. He represented him as a man who loved to hear himself speak, though he could say nothing relevant, and as…

In the preceding speech (Job 10:16), Job had remarked with wonder that among the evils he was suffering, he was being tormented by his …