11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
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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