11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
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And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-19)Bildad here discourses very well on the sad catastrophe of hypocrites and evil-doers and the fatal period of all their hopes and joys. He will not be so bold as to say with Eliphaz that none that were righteous were ever cut off thus (Job 4:7); yet he takes it for granted that God, in the course of his providence, does ordinarily bring wicked men, who seemed pious and were prosperous, to shame and…
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