24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? …
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Commentary
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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