12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; …
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. …
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-16)Job, observing perhaps that his friends, though they would not interrupt him in his discourse, yet began to grow weary, and not to heed much what he said, here turns to God, and speaks to him. If men will not hear us, God will; if men cannot help us, he can; for his arm is not shortened, neither is his ear heavy. Yet we must not go to school to Job here to learn how to speak to God; for, it must b…
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