(3) Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? (4) I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. (5) But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. (6) В¶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
There is a very sweet expression of Job in these verses, in which he intimates, that he would not have served his friends as they have him, had a reverse of circumstances been their portion. Reader! do not overlook it, for it is a blessed token of grace. And how beautiful and lovely is the same feature in JESUS, as the apostle hath marked it; Who when he was reviled, reviled not again. 1 Peter 2:23.