26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
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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