18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? …
And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, …
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, …
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
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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