14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
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For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)Two more instances we have here of Job’s integrity:— I. That he had a very great abhorrence of the sin of adultery. As he did not wrong his own marriage bed by keeping a concubine (he did not so much as think upon a maid, Job 31:1), so he was careful not to offer any injury to his neighbour’s marriage bed. Let us see here, 1. How clear he was from this sin, Job 31:9. (1.) He did not so much as cov…
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