20Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
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Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. …
And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-22)The devil had done all he desired leave to do against Job, to provoke him to curse God. He had touched all he had, touched it with a witness; he whom the rising sun saw the richest of all the men in the east was before night poor to a proverb. If his riches had been, as Satan insinuated, the only principle of his religion now that he had lost his riches he would certainly have lost his religion; b…
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