Job 13:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

XIII.

(2) I am not inferior unto you.I fall not short of you. But it is this very sense of the inscrutableness of God’s dealings that makes him long to come face to face with God, and to reason with Him on the first principles of His action. As it is manifestly the traditionally orthodox position that his friends assume, it is refreshing to find that there may be some truth spoken for God by what is not so reckoned, and that more ultimate truth may exist in honest doubt than is sometimes found in the profession of a loosely-held creed. So the Laureate:

“There lives more truth in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.”

Job 13:2

2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.