1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
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I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. …
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. …
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Job’s discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads:— I. The deplorable condition which poor Job was now in, which he describes, to aggravate the great unkindness of his friends to him and to justify his own complaints. Let us see what his case was. 1. He was a…
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