6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
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Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. …
When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Job here recommends himself, both his case and his discourse, both what he suffered and what he said, to the compassionate consideration of his friends. 1. That which he entreats of them is very fair, that they would suffer him to speak (Job 21:3) and not break in upon him, as Zophar had done, in the midst of his discourse. Losers, of all men, may have leave to speak; and, if those that are accuse…
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