16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
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I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them: …
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-22)Here we have, I. Job’s passionate complaints. On this harsh and unpleasant string he harps much, in which, though he cannot be justified, he may be excused. He complained not for nothing, as the murmuring Israelites, but had cause to complain. If we think it looks ill in him, let it be a warning to us to keep our temper better. 1. He complains of the strictness of God’s judgment and the rigour of…
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