“Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.”
"Behold, I know your thoughts, and the schemes that you would do me wrong with." Job claims to read the friends' minds. They are scheming against him. The verse suggests that the friends' arguments are motivated by desire to harm, not by truth.
Church Fathers on Job 21:27
Behold I know your thoughts, and the devices that ye wrongfully imagine against me. For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwellings of the wicked? For they had imagined him a wicked man, whom they saw, his substance gone, in a temporal way ruined. But the holy man judges them with a lofty review in proportion as amidst the losses which he had met with, he was standing with undiminished uprightness. For how had his losses of substance without hurt…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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