6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? …
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? …
A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Job’s friends all of them went upon this principle, that wicked people cannot prosper long in this world, but some remarkable judgment or other will suddenly light on them: Zophar had concluded with it, that the eyes of the wicked shall fail , Job 11:20. This principle Job here opposes, and maintains that God, in disposing men’s outward affairs, acts as a sovereign, reserving the exact distributio…
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