3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
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LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)We are here led to think, I. Of the original of human life. God is indeed its great original, for he breathed into man the breath of life and in him we live; but we date it from our birth, and thence we must date both its frailty and its pollution. 1. Its frailty: Man, that is born of a woman, is therefore of few days , Job 14:1. This may refer to the first woman, who was called Eve , because she…
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