8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Long was Job’s heart hot within him; and, while he was musing, the fire burned, and the more for being stifled and suppressed. At length he spoke with his tongue, but not such a good word as David spoke after a long pause: Lord, make me to know my end , Ps. 39:3 , 4 . Seven days the prophet Ezekiel sat down astonished with the captives, and then (probably on the sabbath day) the word of the Lord c…
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