18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. …
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-21)Job here reasons with God, I. Concerning his dealings with man in general ( Job 7:17 , 18 ): What is man, that thou shouldst magnify him ? This may be looked upon either, 1. As a passionate reflection upon the proceedings of divine justice; as if the great God did diminish and disparage himself in contending with man. “Great men think it below them to take cognizance of those who are much their in…
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