7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
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When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
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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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