8The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
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The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. …
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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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