“Since Eliphaz speaks so, as if the matter were of extraordinary importance, and talks as if his speech derived from the wisdom of the ancestors, Job also resumes the argument he had used at the beginning. Is what you say not evident, he says? Therefore, since you speak superficially and utter what comes to your mind w…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 16:1-2
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2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
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1Then Job answered and said,
— Job 16:2 —
3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.