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11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Job 21:11

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

  • Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-16)

All Job’s three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. “It is true,” says Job, “remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always; for we have many instances of the great and long prosperity of those that are openly and avowedly wicked; though they are hardened in their wickedness…

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