Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 35:4

4. I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

i. e. Those who are of thy opinion, or with whom thou dost associate thy self in those speeches and carriages. Which seems to be meant not of Iob's three Friends (as many understand it, for their opinions were contrary to Iob's in this point) but of wicked men, with whom Iob is said to walk and go in company for this same opinion or assertion, Chap. 34. 8, 9. And these men he here calls Iob's companions, partly because they are very forward to harp upon the same string, and to accu[illegible: 1+ letters]e God and justifie themselves upon all occasions; and partly, that he might awaken Iob to a more serious review of his former assertions by representing to him whose cause he pleaded and who were his consederates and colleagues in this Opinion.

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