4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
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Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Eliphaz here falls very foul upon Job, because he contradicted what he and his colleagues had said, and did not acquiesce in it and applaud it, as they expected. Proud people are apt thus to take it very much amiss if they may not have leave to dictate and give law to all about them, and to censure those as ignorant and obstinate, and all that is naught, who cannot in every thing say as they say.…
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