11As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
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And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; …
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
Commentary
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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