to confute Job, and still had been unsuccessful. 12. There was none of you that convinced Job. There was no one to produce conviction on his mind, or rather, there was no one to reprove him by answering him—מוכיח עונה. They were completely silenced, and had nothing to reply to the arguments which he had advanced, and to his reflections on the divine government. 13. Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom. That is, this has been permitted and ordered in such a manner that it might be manifest