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Job 11:2

The Pulpit Commentary on Job 11:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Should not the multitude of words be answered? A "multitude of words" is often reproved in Scripture, and taken as a sign of either folly () or sin (). Job had certainly been somewhat unduly verbose, and laid himself open to the taunt hero launched against him; but neither had brevity been studied by his other friends in their previous answers (; ; .

), nor is it greatly studied by Zophar here. And should a man full of talk be justified? literally, a man of lips' which may mean either "a great talker" or "a man who makes many professions." There is a widespread prejudice against a great orator, and a widespread notion that a good cause does net need many words.

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