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Do you intend to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
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Grace for Grieving Words
Commentators agree that Job is asking his friends, "Are you really going to criticize my words?" He argues that the speeches of a person in deep despair are like "wind"—emotional, rash, and shouldn't be analyzed as a deliberate theological statement. Job is pleading for them to look past his pained expressions to the reality of his suffering.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Do you imagine to reprove words? - A considerable variety of interpretation has occurred in regard to this verse. Dr. Good, following Schult…
19th Century
Anglican
Do ye imagine to reprove words...? —“It cannot be your intent to reprove mere words, as mine admittedly are ([Reference J…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Do you imagine to reprove words Or with words; with bare words, without any force of reasoning and argument in them? put a par…
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In his prosperity, Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. T…
13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding verses, Job had shown that while he felt pain and spoke from that pain, he did so rationally and was not carried away by his suffe…
