4If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
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And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: …
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. …
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here, I. Bildad reproves Job for what he had said (Job 8:2), checks his passion, but perhaps (as is too common) with greater passion. We thought Job spoke a great deal of good sense and much to the purpose, and that he had reason and right on his side; but Bildad, like an eager angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things ? taking it for granted that Eliphaz h…
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