15But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
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Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-16)Here is, I. Another improper word for which Elihu reproves Job (Job 35:14): Thou sayest thou shalt not see him ; that is, 1. “Thou complainest that thou dost not understand the meaning of his severe dealings with thee, nor discern the drift and design of them,” Job 23:8 , 9 . And, 2. “Thou despairest of seeing his gracious returns to thee, of seeing better days again, and art ready to give up all…
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