13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
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Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; …
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. …
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
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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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