Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 3. Thou hast instructed many ] Thou hast seen many in affliction and distress, and thou hast given them such advice as was suitable to their state, and effectual to their relief; and by this means thou hast strengthened the weak hands, and the feeble knees-the desponding have been encouraged, and the irresolute confirmed and excited to prompt and proper actions, by thy counsel and example.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - Satan undertook to prove Job a hypocrite by afflicting him; and his friends concluded him to be one because he was so afflicted, and showe impatience. This we must keep in mind if we would understand what passed. Eliphaz speaks of Job, and his afflicted condition, with tenderness; but charges him with weakness and faint-heartedness. Me make few allowances for those who have taught others. Even piou friends will count that only a touch which we feel as a wound. Lear from hence to draw off the mind of a sufferer from brooding over the affliction, to look at the God of mercies in the affliction. And ho can this be done so well as by looking to Christ Jesus, in whose unequalled sorrows every child of God soonest learns to forget his own?
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