Job 27:1

Verse 1. Parable: speaking in a figurative poetic style, Numbers 23:7. Job grants that God generally punishes the wicked, but he maintains that he also chastises the just; and hence admonishes all to revere his judgments and wisdom, and to decline from evil; which truths must always subsist, whatever my be the conduct of Providence. Calmet.—Parables do not always imply similies, but sometimes pithy, and profound sentences, spoken by the wisest men.