20Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
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And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
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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