18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
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And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
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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