20He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-25)This is a noble discourse of Job’s concerning the wisdom, power, and sovereignty of God, in ordering and disposing of all the affairs of the children of men, according to the counsel of his own will, which none dares gainsay or can resist. Take both him and them out of the controversy in which they were so warmly engaged, and they all spoke admirably well; but, in that , we sometimes scarcely know…
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