Verses 1-5 - Job upbraids his friends with the good opinion they had of their ow wisdom compared with his. We are apt to call reproofs reproaches, an to think ourselves mocked when advised and admonished; this is ou folly; yet here was colour for this charge. He suspected the true caus of their conduct to be, that they despised him who was fallen int poverty. It is the way of the world. Even the just, upright man, if he comes under a cloud, is looked upon with contempt.
