5If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. …
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
Wherefore(as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, …
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: …
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: …
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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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