If we attempt to speak with you—Margin, A word. Hebrew—הנסה דבר dâbâr hanı̂câh. “May we attempt a word w…

If we assay. —Rather, perhaps, Has one ever attempted? or, Has a word ever been tried? It appears from Job 29:9-…

[If] we assay to commune with you, will you be grieved ?
&c.] Eliphaz speaks in the name of himself and his two frie…

Satan undertook to prove Job a hypocrite by afflicting him; and his friends concluded him to be one because he was so afflicted and showed impatien…

Job's friends, who came to console him, had kept silent until now because of the severity of his pain. After Job finished speaking, they boldly beg…