29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
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Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: …
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. …
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. …
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-32)Four articles more of Job’s protestation we have in these verses, which, as all the rest, not only assure us what he was and did, but teach us what we should be and do:— I. He protests that he never set his heart upon the wealth of this world, nor took the things of it for his portions and happiness. He had gold; he had fine gold. His wealth was great , and he had gotten much . Our wealth is eithe…
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