14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? …
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
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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