6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-10)The rest of Bildad’s discourse is entirely taken up in an elegant description of the miserable condition of a wicked man, in which there is a great deal of certain truth, and which will be of excellent use if duly considered—that a sinful condition is a sad condition, and that iniquity will be men’s ruin if they do not repent of it. But it is not true that all wicked people are visibly and openly…
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