2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
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I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb. …
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, …
His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
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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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