19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
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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.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
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. …
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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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