John Gill's Exposition on Job 34:35

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Job hath spoken without knowledge, etc.] Not that Job was an ignorant man, either in things natural or divine; but in this point, about the chastening hand of God upon him, he had said some things which betrayed lack of knowledge, as in (<183405>Job 34:5); and his words [were] without wisdom; Job was not destitute of human wisdom, nor of spiritual wisdom, but no man is wise at all times; some things had dropped from him which savoured of folly and ignorance, and which he afterwards was convinced of, and confessed with shame, (<184004>Job 40:4,5 42:3); being charged by the Lord himself with what he is here by Elihu, (<183802>Job 38:2); and it may be observed, that Elihu does not charge Job with being a wicked man, as his three friends did, but as having spoken unadvisedly with lips, under his chastening circumstances, and which he labours to convince him of.

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