20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
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Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-21)Eliphaz, having undertaken to convince Job of the sin and folly of his discontent and impatience, here vouches a vision he had been favoured with, which he relates to Job for his conviction. What comes immediately from God all men will pay a particular deference to, and Job, no doubt, as much as any. Some think Eliphaz had this vision now lately , since he came to Job, putting words into his mouth…
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