36My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
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Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men. …
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-37)In these verses, I. Elihu instructs Job what he should say under his affliction, Job 34:31 , 32 . Having reproved him for his peevish passionate words, he here puts better words into his mouth. When we reprove for what is amiss we must direct to what is good, that our reproofs may be the reproofs of instruction , Prov. 6:23. He does not impose it upon Job to use these words, but recommends it to h…
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