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"I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
Many such things — That is, either things fitted to provoke and irritate, or sentiments that are commonplace. There was nothing new in…
19th Century
Anglican
I have heard many such things. —Trite rather than true, or at least the whole truth.
“Common is the common-place,<…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I have heard many such things As those Eliphaz has been discoursing of, concerning the punishment of wicked men; man…
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Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable and pointless; Job here gives Eliphaz's words the same characterization. Those who pass cr…
13th Century
Catholic
Eliphaz had spoken harshly against Job in his answer, so Job begins his speech by accusing him of providing unfitting consolation. First, because h…
