22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me. …
The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
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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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