5When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. …
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them. …
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
Commentary
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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