23Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
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For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? …
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
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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