7For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
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He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him; …
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Commentary
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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