14For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.
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That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? …
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-17)Some make Job to complain here that God dealt unjustly and unfairly with him in proceeding to punish him without the least relenting or relaxation, though he had such incontestable evidences to produce of his innocency. I am loth to think holy Job would charge the holy God with iniquity; but his complaint is indeed bitter and peevish, and he reasons himself into a sort of patience per force , whic…
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