6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
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Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)We have here, I. The bad words which Elihu charges upon Job, Job 35:2 , 3 . To evince the badness of them he appeals to Job himself, and his own sober thoughts, in the reflection: Thinkest thou this to be right ? This intimates Elihu’s confidence that the reproof he now gave was just, for he could refer the judgment of it even to Job himself. Those that have truth and equity on their side sooner o…
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