10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. …
O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-13)Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when it dashes against a rock. Job had been courting death, as that which would be the happy period of his miseries, Job 3:1-26. For this Eliphaz had gravely reproved him, but he, instead of unsaying what he had said, says it here again with more vehemence than before; and it is as ill…
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