3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
(Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. …
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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