11My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
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Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. …
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-12)Here, I. Job complains that he cannot understand the meaning of God’s providences concerning him, but is quite at a loss about them ( Job 23:8 , 9 ): I go forward, but he is not there , etc. Eliphaz had bid him acquaint himself with God. “So I would, with all my heart,” says Job, “If I knew how to get acquainted with him.” He had himself a great desire to appear before God, and get a hearing of hi…
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