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12Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

Job 8:12

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Matthew Henry

(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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