9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
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For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? …
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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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