17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
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Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. …
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Commentary
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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