Job 35:16
So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
BSB
ASV
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplieth words without knowledge.
KJV
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain, he multiplieth words without knowledge. By introducing these words, he doubtless asserts, that blessed Job both knew nothing, and had said much; and, though he introduces his own opinions loquaciously, he accuses him of the fault of loquacity.
But it was not fair to charge this upon Job, which he had neither directly nor indirectly affirmed. Clouds, &c. - They are far above us, and God is far above them. How much then is he out of the reach either of our sins or our services?
He did not, as his other friends, condemn him for a hypocrite, but charged him only with Moses's sin, speaking unadvisedly with his lips when his spirit was provoked. When at any time we do so (and who is there that offends not in word?) it is a mercy to be told of it, and we must take it patiently and kindly as Job did, not repeating, but recanting, what we have said amiss.
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain - God will execute vengeance when it may best serve the ends of his justice, providence, and mercy. The delay of judgment is not proof that it shall not be executed; nor is the deferring of mercy any proof that God has forgotten to be gracious. He multiplieth words without knowledge - However this may apply to Job, it most certainly applies very strongly and generally to the words, not only of Job’s three friends, but to those also of Elihu himself. The contest is frequently a strife of words.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Job 38:2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
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You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.
‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words lack insight.’
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Job 3:1After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
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Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips.
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Job 33:2Behold, I will open my mouth; my address is on the tip of my tongue.
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After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—