11He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
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I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: …
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
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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