10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. …
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; …
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-22)Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job’s complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon their good nature, if they had any left in them. I. He complains of the tokens of God’s displeasure which he was under, and which infused the wormwood and gall into the affliction and misery. How dole…
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