11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
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For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)The instances here given of the miserable condition of the wicked man in this world are expressed with great fulness and fluency of language, and the same thing returned to again and repeated in other words. Let us therefore reduce the particulars to their proper heads, and observe, I. What his wickedness is for which he is punished. 1. The lusts of the flesh, here called the sins of his youth (Jo…
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