20For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
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What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. …
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. …
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. …
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-22)The prophet, having reproved those that made a jest of the word of God, here goes on to reprove those that made a jest of the judgments of God, and set them at defiance; for he is a jealous God, and w 6716 ill not suffer either his ordinances or his providences to be brought into contempt. He addressed himself to the scornful men who ruled in Jerusalem , who were the magistrates of the city, Isa.…
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