27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
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But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-34)In these verses, I. Job opposes the opinion of his friends, which he saw they still adhered to, that the wicked are sure to fall into such visible and remarkable ruin as Job had now fallen into, and none but the wicked, upon which principle they condemned Job as a wicked man. “ I know your thoughts ,” says Job (Job 21:27); “I know you will not agree with me; for your judgments are tinctured and bi…
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