Behold, now I have opened my mouth
Begun to speak in order to give vent to the fulness of matter
within him, which made him, like bottles of new wine, ready to
burst; and since he had opened his lips, that he might speak and
be refreshed, he desires Job to listen to him, and offers same
things to his consideration to induce him to it:
my tongue hath spoken in my mouth:
but does not every man's tongue speak in his mouth when he
speaks? is there anything singular and peculiar in this, that can
excite attention? it may be rendered, "in my palate" F4; which,
as it is an instrument of speech, so of tasting and trying food,
see ( Job 6:30 )
( 12:11 ) ; and
Elihu's sense is, that he had thoroughly considered what he
should say, he had well weighed what he should speak, and should
not deliver anything raw, crude, and undigested; he had palated
his words, in order to discern whether there was anything in them
perverse or not.