23He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
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Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
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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