For thou hast hid their heart from understanding - That is, the heart of his professed friends. Job says that they were blind and p…

Their heart. —that is, the heart of his friends.

For you have hid their heart from understanding
That is, the hearts of his friends, and therefore they were unfit to…

Job reflects on the harsh censures his friends had pa ed on him, and, looking on himself as a dying man, he appeals to God. Our time is ending; it …

Job had previously shown the great number of his afflictions (Job 16:14), the humiliation of his mind (Job 16:16), his inno…