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Please receive the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in your heart.
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Treasure God's Word in Your Heart
Commentators explain that Eliphaz's counsel is to do more than just hear God's commands. It means to internalize His truth, treasuring it in your heart like a valuable possession. This stored-up word then becomes a resource for guidance, resisting temptation, and instruction.
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Job
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth – Listen to His commands, and obey His precepts.
And lay up his words in…
19th Century
Anglican
The law from his mouth. —It would be highly interesting to know whether by this law (Torah), the Law, the Torah, was in a…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth Not the law of Moses; for it is a question whether that was as yet, or …
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The answer of Eliphaz wrongly implied that Job had previously not known God, and that prosperity in this life would follow his sincere conversion. …
13th Century
Catholic
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…
