41Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. …
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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