Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 26:4

4. To whom hast thou uttered words ? and whose spirit came from thee ?

For whose Instruction hast thou uttered these things? For mine? Doest thou think me to be so ignorant that I do not know, that which the meanest persons are not unacquainted with; to wit, that God is incomparably greater and better than his Creatures?

So the sense is, whom hast thou revived or comforted by this discourse? Not me surely. The spirit or breath of a man is in a manner suppressed and intercepted in deep sorrows and consternations, such as Iob's were, and when he is cheared or refreshed, it finds vent and breaths out freely as it did before. But I do not remember that ever this Phrase is used in this sense, but on the contrary, the giving or restoring of life are expressed by the co[illegible: 1+ letters]ing in, and not by the going out of spirit or breath, as appears from Gen. 2. 7. Ezek 37. 5, 6, 10. The words therefore are and may be otherwise understood; either thus, Whose spirit or inspiration, (as this word signifies, Iob 32. 8.) came from thee? Who inspired thee with this profound discourse of thine? Was it by Divine Inspiration, as thou wouldest have us to believe? Or was it not a rash suggestion of thy own vain and foolish mind? Or thus, Whose spirit went out (to wit, of his body by an extasie of admiration) for thee, by reason of thy discourse? I may be thought partial in my censure of it, but thou mayst perceive none of our Friends here present admire it, except thy self. Or to, or for whom (the Particle eth being here understood out of the former Branch, as is usual among the Hebrews) did breath go out from thee; i. e. didst thou speak? For whose good, or to what end didst thou speak this? God needed it not, I receive no edification or benefit by it.