38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
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For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
Commentary
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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