14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
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Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: …
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job’s was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction:— I. The meanness of the persons that affronted him. As it added much to his honour, in the day of his prosperity, that…
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