9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. …
He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. …
Commentary
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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