15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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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