6Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
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For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare. …
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. …
When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Job’s friends had passed a very severe censure upon him as a wicked man because he was so grievously afflicted; now here he tells them how ill he took it to be so censured. Bildad had twice begun with a How long ( Job 8:2 ; 18:2 ), and therefore Job, being now to answer him particularly, begins with a How long too, Job 19:2. What is not liked is commonly thought long; but Job had more reason to th…
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