3. beasts--alluding to what Job said
(Job 12:7;
so
Isa 1:3).
vile--rather from a Hebrew root, "to stop up." "Stubborn,"
answering to the stupidity implied in the parallel first clause
[UMBREIT]. Why should we give occasion by your empty speeches for our
being mutually reputed, in the sight of Job and one another, as
unintelligent?
(Job 17:4, 10).
JFB.
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