4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
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The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Losers may have leave to speak, and there is nothing they speak of more feelingly than of the comforts they are stripped of. Their former prosperity is one of the most pleasing subjects of their thoughts and talk. It was so to Job, who begins here with a wish (Job 29:2): O that I were as in months past ! so he brings in this account of his prosperity. His wish is, 1. “O that I were in as good a st…
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