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16For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

Job 23:16

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

  • I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

  • And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

  • Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

  • Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

Commentary

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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