13If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
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Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)Bildad began with a rebuke to Job for talking so much, Job 8:2. Job makes no answer to that, though it would have been easy enough to retort it upon himself; but in what he next lays down as his principle, that God never perverts judgment, Job agrees with him: I know it is so of a truth , Job 9:2. Note, We should be ready to own how far we agree with those with whom we dispute, and should not slig…
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