13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
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I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. …
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: …
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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