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11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

Job 16:11

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • 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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