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Empty, Commonplace Words
Job dismisses his friends' arguments as things he has "heard many times." Commentators explain that Job found their counsel to be trite, commonplace, and inapplicable to his unique suffering. Instead of offering fresh wisdom, they repeated generic platitudes that failed to address his reality.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 16:2
18th Century
Theologian
Many such things — That is, either things fitted to provoke and irritate, or sentiments that are commonplace. There was nothing new in…
Charles Ellicott
On Job 16:2
19th Century
Bishop
I have heard many such things. —Trite rather than true, or at least the whole truth.
“Common is the common-place,<…
John Gill
On Job 16:2
17th Century
Pastor
I have heard many such things
As those Eliphaz has been discoursing of, concerning the punishment of wicked men; man…
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Matthew Henry
On Job 16:1–5
17th Century
Minister
Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable and pointless; Job here gives Eliphaz's words the same characterization. Those who pass cr…