2As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
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For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the LORD liveth.
For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Job’s discourse here is called a parable (mashal ), the title of Solomon’s proverbs, because it was grave and weighty, and very instructive, and he spoke as one having authority. It comes from a word that signifies to rule , or have dominion ; and some think it intimates that Job now triumphed over his opponents, and spoke as one that had baffled them. We say of an excellent preacher that he knows…
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