20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. …
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. …
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. …
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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