13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
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The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Commentary
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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