16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
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It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. …
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; …
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-20)Eliphaz, having endeavoured to convict Job, by setting his sins (as he thought) in order before him, here endeavours to awaken him to a sight and sense of his misery and danger by reason of sin; and this he does by comparing his case with that of the sinners of the old world; as if he had said, “Thy condition is bad now, but, unless thou repent, it will be worse, as theirs was—theirs who were over…
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