Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 3. I am not inferior to you ] I do not fall short of any of you in understanding, wisdom, learning, and experience.
Who knoweth not such things as these? ] All your boasted wisdom consists only in strings of proverbs which are in every person's mouth, and are no proof of wisdom and experience in them that use them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
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.
Original Hebrew גם1571 לי לבב3824 כמוכם3644 לא3808 נפל5307 אנכי595 מכם4480 ואת854 מי4310 אין369 כמו3644 אלה׃428
