22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. …
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)Job’s condition was very deplorable; but had he nothing to support him, nothing to comfort him? Yes, and he here tells us what it was. I. He had the testimony of his conscience for him that he had walked uprightly, and had never allowed himself in any gross sin. None was ever more ready than he to acknowledge his sins of infirmity; but, upon search, he could not charge himself with any enormous cr…
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