28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. …
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. …
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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