34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
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So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.
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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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