8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. …
He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. …
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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