18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
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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