28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
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Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.
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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