21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
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But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
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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