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Yet he filled their houses with good things: But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Yet he filled their houses with good things - This is undoubtedly a biting sarcasm. Job had maintained that such people were prospe…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Yet he filled their houses. —The bitterness of his irony now reaches its climax because he adopts the very formula of rep…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

Yet he filled their houses with good [things]
With temporal good things, with this world's good, with plenty of prov…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Eliphaz wanted Job to mark the old way that wicked men have walked, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, so that we…

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

ThomasAquinas

13th Century
Catholic
13th Century

In the preceding words, Eliphaz seems to have charged Job with not believing that God has providence in human affairs. Now, as a consequence, he ap…

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