7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
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I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-11)Eliphaz here advances another argument to prove Job a hypocrite, and will have not only his impatience under his afflictions to be evidence against him but even his afflictions themselves, being so very great and extraordinary, and there being no prospect at all of his deliverance out of them. To strengthen his argument he here lays down these two principles, which seem plausible enough:— I. That…
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