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Haven`t you asked wayfaring men? Don`t you know their evidences,
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An Appeal to Experience
Job challenges his friends to stop theorizing and look at the real world. He tells them to ask 'wayfaring men'—travelers who have seen more of life. Commentators agree that Job is appealing to universal, observable evidence. He is confident that anyone with broad experience would confirm his observation: the wicked often prosper in this life, contrary to the friends' rigid theology.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Have you not asked them that go by the way? – Travelers, who have passed into other countries, and who have had an opportunity of m…
19th Century
Anglican
Their tokens — i.e., the marks and evidences of their experience, and the conclusions at which they had arrived.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Have you not asked them that go by the way ? &c.] Did you not ask every traveller you met with on the road the above…
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Job opposes the opinion of his friends that the wicked are sure to fall into visible and remarkable ruin, and none but the wicked; upon which princ…
13th Century
Catholic
Since Job had previously established that evil men sometimes experience prosperity and at other times adversity in this life, which causes doubt, h…
