13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; …
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. …
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-16)Job’s friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows, I. That it was their folly to talk so (Job 17:10): “ Return, and come now , be convinced that you are in an error, and let me persuade you to be of my mind; for I cannot find one wise man among you , that knows how to explain the difficulties of God’s providence or how to apply…
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