23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: …
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.
Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-24)Here Job touches briefly upon the main point now in dispute between him and his friends. They maintained that those who are righteous and good always prosper in this world, and none but the wicked are in misery and distress; he asserted, on the contrary, that it is a common thing for the wicked to prosper and the righteous to be greatly afflicted. This is the one thing, the chief thing, wherein he…
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