24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, …
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-31)In this second part of Job’s complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with. I. Here is much that he complains of. 1. In general, it was a day of great affliction and sorrow. (1.) Affliction seized him, and surprised him. It seized him (Job 30:16): The days of affliction h…
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