21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
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They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)Bildad here describes the destruction itself which wicked people are reserved for in the other world, and which, in some degree, often seizes them in this world. Come, and see what a miserable condition the sinner is in when his day comes to fall. I. See him disheartened and weakened by continual terrors arising from the sense of his own guilt and the dread of God’s wrath ( Job 18:11 , 12 ): Terro…
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