16He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
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She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. …
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. …
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? …
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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