8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.
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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