30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
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Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-31)Here, I. The prophet reproves the people of God, who are now supposed to be captives in Babylon for their unbelief and distrust of God, and the dejections and despondencies of their spirit under their affliction (Isa. 40:27): “ Why sayest thou, O Jacob ! to thyself and to those about thee, My way is hidden from the Lord ? Why dost thou make hard and melancholy conclusions concerning thyself and th…
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