14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
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Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. …
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-14)Eliphaz and his companions had condemned Job, in general, as a wicked man and a hypocrite; but none of them had descended to particulars, nor drawn up any articles of impeachment against him, until Eliphaz did so here, where he positively and expressly charges him with many high crimes and misdemeanours, which, if he had really been guilty of them, might well have justified them in their harsh cen…
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