7But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
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The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, …
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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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