8And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
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Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-14)Elihu, being to speak on God’s behalf, and particularly to ascribe righteousness to his Maker, here shows that the disposals of divine Providence are all, not only according to the eternal counsels of his will, but according to the eternal rules of equity. God acts as a righteous governor, for, I. He does not think it below him to take notice of the meanest of his subjects, nor does poverty or obs…
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