thine heart: Ecclesiastes 11:9; Mark 7:21-22; Acts 5:3-4, Acts 8:22; James 1:14-15
thy eyes: Job 17:2; Psalms 35:19; Proverbs 6:13
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Job 15:12
Job 15:12
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least silenced all his three friends; but, it seems he had not: in this…Job 15 — OverviewJob 15 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJob 15:1, Eliphaz reproves Job for impiety in justifying himself; v.17, He proves by tradition the unquietness of wicked men.Job 15 — OverviewJob 15 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleJob's three friends having in their turns attacked him, and he having given answer respectively to them, Eliphaz, who began the attack, first enters the debate with him again, and proceeds upon the same plan as before,…Job 15:1-16Job 15:1-16 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleEliphaz here falls very foul upon Job, because he contradicted what he
and his colleagues had said, and did not acquiesce in it and applaud
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