12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?
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Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? …
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. …
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-23)Job’s friends had seen a great deal of the misery and destruction that attend wicked people, especially oppressors; and Job, while the heat of disputation lasted, had said as much, and with as much assurance, of their prosperity; but now that the heat of the battle was nearly over he was willing to own how far he agreed with them, and where the difference between his opinion and theirs lay. 1. He…
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