Yea, I attended unto you
Very closely, with great application and diligence, endeavouring
to get, as it were, within them, and thoroughly understand the
meaning of what they said:
and, behold, [there was] none of you that convinced
Job;
which was not owing to his obstinacy, but to want of proof in
them, their words and arguments; they had charged Job highly, as
particularly Eliphaz, ( Job
22:5-9 ) ; but then they failed in their proof; they produced
nothing to support their allegations:
[or] that answered his words;
the arguments and reasons he gave in proof of his own innocence
and uprightness, or the instances he produced, showing that God
often afflicted good men, and suffered the wicked to prosper; and
therefore no argument could be drawn from God's dealings with
men, proving they were either of this or the other character,
good or bad men.
