17But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
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And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.
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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