17What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-21)Eliphaz had been very severe in his censures of Job; and his companions, though as yet they had said little, yet had intimated their concurrence with him. Their unkindness therein poor Job here complains of, as an aggravation of his calamity and a further excuse of his desire to die; for what satisfaction could he ever expect in this world when those that should have been his comforters thus prove…
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