17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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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