12His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. …
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
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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