18Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: …
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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