8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-17)We have here Job in a post of honour and power. Though he had comfort enough in his own house, yet he did not confine himself to that. We are not born for ourselves, but for the public. When any business was to be done in the gate, the place of judgment, Job went out to it through the city (Job 29:7), not in an affectation of pomp, but in an affection to justice. Observe, Judgment was administered…
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