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Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 26:3

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Job26:3

3. How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom ? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is ?

Either 1. God: Thou hast in effect undertaken to teach God how to govern the World. Or rather 2. me, whom you take to be a man void of understanding, Chapter 11. 2, 3. whom therefore you should have instructed with wholesom counsels, instead of these impertinent discourses; and who indeed do want wisdom being perfectly at a loss, and not knowing what to say or do.

Heb. Essence, the truth and substance of the thing in question between us; Thou hast spoken the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and all that can be said in the matter. Or, Wisdom, as this word is used, Prov. 3. 21. A most wise and profound discourse thou hast made and much to the purpose: an Ironical expression as before.

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