13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? …
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-19)Job, perhaps reflecting upon himself for his folly in wishing he had never been born, follows it, and thinks to mend it, with another, little better, that he had died as soon as he was born, which he enlarges upon in these verses. When our Saviour would set forth a very calamitous state of things he seems to allow such a saying as this, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and th…
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