16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. …
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. …
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
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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