17He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
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A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Commentary
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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