27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
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He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-41)Hitherto God had put such questions to Job as were proper to convince him of his ignorance and short-sightedness. Now he comes, in the same manner, to show his impotency and weakness. As it is but little that he knows, and therefore he ought not to arraign the divine counsels, so it is but little that he can do, and therefore he ought not to oppose the proceedings of Providence. Let him consider w…
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