15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
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And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. …
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
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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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