10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
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And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. …
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-15)We have seen what Job has to say concerning life; let us now see what he has to say concerning death, which his thoughts were very much conversant with, now that he was sick and sore. It is not unseasonable, when we are in health, to think of dying; but it is an inexcusable incogitancy if, when we are already taken into the custody of death’s messengers, we look upon it as a thing at a distance. J…
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