23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-35)Eliphaz, having reproved Job for his answers, here comes to maintain his own thesis, upon which he built his censure of Job. His opinion is that those who are wicked are certainly miserable, whence he would infer that those who are miserable are certainly wicked, and that therefore Job was so. Observe, I. His solemn preface to this discourse, in which he bespeaks Job’s attention, which he had litt…
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