11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-16)Job’s complaint is here as bitter as any where in all his discourses, and he is at a stand whether to smother it or to give it vent. Sometimes the one and sometimes the other is a relief to the afflicted, according as the temper or the circumstances are; but Job found help by neither, Job 16:6. 1. Sometimes giving vent to grief gives ease; but, “ Though I speak ” (says Job), “ my grief is not assu…
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