28But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
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Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-29)In all the conferences between Job and his friends we do not find any more weighty and considerable lines than these; would one have expected it? Here is much both of Christ and heaven in these verses: and he that said such things as these declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly ; as the patriarchs of that age did, Heb. 11:14. We have here Job’s creed, or confessi…
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