10He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.
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And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Here Job shows, 1. What a great way the wit of man may go in diving into the depths of nature and seizing the riches of it, what a great deal of knowledge and wealth men may, by their ingenious and industrious searches, make themselves masters of. But does it therefore follow that men may, by their wit, comprehend the reasons why some wicked people prosper and others are punished, why some good pe…
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