19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: …
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-28)God has spoken once to sinners by their own consciences, to keep them from the paths of the destroyer, but they perceive it not; they are not aware that the checks their own hearts give them in a sinful way are from God, but they are imputed to melancholy or the preciseness of their education; and therefore God speaks twice; he speaks a second time, and tries another way to convince and reclaim si…
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