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Answering the Silence
Commentators explain that the phrase "Job answered" doesn't mean his friends spoke first. The Hebrew word used often means responding to a situation—in this case, his own calamity and his friends' seven-day silence. He is breaking the silence to give voice to his suffering.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 3:2
18th Century
Theologian
And Job spoke - Margin, as in Hebrew, “answered.” The Hebrew word used here ענה (‛ ânâh), “to answer,” is often used …
John Gill
On Job 3:2
17th Century
Pastor
And Job spoke, and said .
] Or "answered and said" F20 , though not a word was spoken to him by his friends; he ans…
Matthew Henry
On Job 3:1–10
17th Century
Minister
For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence…