19The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
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He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. …
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
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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