30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
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Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: …
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. …
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. …
Commentary
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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