12Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-14)Job was greatly humbled for what God had already said, but not sufficiently; he was brought low, but not low enough; and therefore God here proceeds to reason with him in the same manner and to the same purport as before, Job 40:6. Observe, 1. Those who duly receive what they have heard from God, and profit by it, shall hear more from him. 2. Those who are truly convinced of sin, and penitent for…
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