11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. …
He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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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