Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
Ver. 22. Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth] Now he speaks Job fair whom before he had sufficiently ripped up, and roughly hewen without mercy, or so much as truth. That which he here persuadeth him to is to depend upon God for direction and success in all his enterprises; to consult with him upon all occasions, and not to do aught without his warranty and approbation. God's testimonies were David's delight and his counsellors, Psalms 119:24. All that advise not with these must needs be without understanding, a nation void of counsel, Deuteronomy 32:28 .
And lay up his words in thine heart] Heb. Put his word, as the tables were put in the ark; mingle God's word with faith in thine heart, as in a vessel. Cor autem sit carneum fide, the flinty heart is made fleshy by faith, and capable of divine impressions.