15They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
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If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied. …
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
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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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