34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
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Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. …
So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-40)We have here Job’s protestation against three more sins, together with his general appeal to God’s bar and his petition for a hearing there, which, it is likely, was intended to conclude his discourse (and therefore we will consider it last), but that another particular sin occurred, from which he thought it requisite to acquit himself. He clears himself from the charge, I. Of dissimulation and hy…
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