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Then Job answered,
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A Response Born of Pain
Commentators note that this verse introduces Job's reply not as a calm debate, but as a cry of despair. Having been denied the sympathy he expected from Eliphaz, Job speaks from a place of deep emotional pain and a feeling of being completely misunderstood by his friend.
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19th Century
Anglican
But Job answered and said. —Job replies to Eliphaz with the despair of a man who has been denied the sympathy he hoped to…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But Job answered and said . Though Eliphaz thought his speech was unanswerable, being, as he and his friends judged,…
Presbyterian
Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to outward troubles, the inner sense of God's wrath took away all his courage and resolu…
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13th Century
Catholic
Eliphaz had clearly noted three things in Job’s lament: despair, because Job seemed to desire non-existence; impatience or excessive sorrow, becaus…