20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. …
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-26)Job, finding it to no purpose to wish either that he had not been born or had died as soon as he was born, here complains that his life was now continued and not cut off. When men are set on quarrelling there is no end of it; the corrupt heart will carry on the humour. Having cursed the day of his birth, here he courts the day of his death. The beginning of this strife and impatience is as the let…
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