18He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-21)What Job had said of man’s utter inability to contend with God he here applies to himself, and in effect despairs of gaining his favour, which (some think) arises from the hard thoughts he had of God, as one who, having set himself against him, right or wrong, would be too hard for him. I rather think it arises from the sense he had of the imperfection of his own righteousness, and the dark and cl…
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