16Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-23)Elihu here comes more closely to Job; and, I. He tells him what God would have done for him before this if he had been duly humbled under his affliction. “We all know how ready God is to deliver the poor in his affliction (Job 36:15); he always was so. The poor in spirit, those that are of a broken and contrite heart, he looks upon with tenderness, and, when they are in affliction, is ready to hel…
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