13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. …
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come. …
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. …
And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
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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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