21Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
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If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow 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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