18And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-22)Job here returns to his complaints; and, though he is not without hope of future bliss, he finds it very hard to get over his present grievances. I. He complains of the particular hardships he apprehended himself under from the strictness of God’s justice, Job 14:16 , 17 . Therefore he longed to go hence to that world where God’s wrath will be past, because now he was under the continual tokens of…
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