131 Lo, all—hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it. 2 According to your knowledge I have known—also I. I am not fallen more than you. 3 Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight. 4 And yet, ye 'are' forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought—all of you, 5 O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom. 6 Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend, 7 For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit? 8 His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive? 9 Is 'it' good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him? 10 He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces. 11 Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you? 12 Your remembrances 'are' similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 13:1-12
Commentary on Job 13:1-12
(Read Job 13:1-12)
With self-preference, Job declared that he needed not to be taught by them. Those who dispute are tempted to magnify themselves, and lower their brethren, more than is fit. When dismayed or distressed with the fear of wrath, the force of temptation, or the weight of affliction, we should apply to the Physician of our souls, who never rejects any, never prescribes amiss, and never leaves any case uncured. To Him we may speak at all times. To broken hearts and wounded consciences, all creatures, without Christ, are physicians of no value. Job evidently speaks with a very angry spirit against his friends. They had advanced some truths which nearly concerned Job, but the heart unhumbled before God, never meekly receives the reproofs of men.