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12Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Job 6:12 —
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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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