9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him. …
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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