9He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
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Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! …
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
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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