8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? …
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister. …
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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