19The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
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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