Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 16:11

11. God hath delivered me to the ungodly , and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

either 1. to my Friends, who act the part of the wicked in censuring and condemning the righteous whom God approveth and in pleading for a false and wicked Cause. Or rather 2. to the Chaldeans and Sabeans, who were a most wicked people, living in gross contempt of God, and injuriousness to all sorts of men. For this best suits both with the first Clause of the next Verse, which sheweth that he speaketh of Iob's first Afflictions which befell him when he was at ease; and with Iob's principal scope, which was to prove, that both eminent prosperity and affliction did indifferently happen to good and bad men: and this was evident from this example, because holy Iob was ruined, when these wicked people were most victorious and successful.

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