5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
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Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The reproofs Job here gives to his friends, whether they were just or no, were very sharp, and may serve for a rebuke to all that are proud and scornful, and an exposure of their folly. I. He upbraids them with their conceitedness of themselves, and the good opinion they seemed to have of their own wisdom in comparison with him, than which nothing is more weak and unbecoming, nor better deserves t…
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