7Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Several arguments Elihu here uses to persuade Job not only to give him a patient hearing, but to believe that he designed him a good office, and to take it kindly, and be willing to receive the instructions he was now about to give him. Let Job consider, 1. That Elihu does not join with his three friends against him. He has, in the foregoing chapter, declared his dislike of their proceedings, disc…
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