1. Job 33:8 (ESV)
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Commentary on Job 33:8 (Summary)

Job 33:8 (ESV)

8 “Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words.

Here Elihu begins confronting Job. Unlike Job’s friends, Elihu will not accuse him of imagined sins in the past. He rebukes Job for his arrogant words in the present, words that Job had said in [Elihu’s] ears.

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