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Job answered:
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
And Job spoke - Margin, as in Hebrew, “answered.” The Hebrew word used here ענה (‛ ânâh), “to answer,” is often used …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Job spoke, and said . ] Or "answered and said" F20 , though not a word was spoken to him by his friends; he ans…
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
In Chapter 2, I explained that ancient philosophers held two opinions about the passions. The Stoics said that there was no place for sorrow in the…
