25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. …
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. …
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-35)Job here grows more and more querulous, and does not conclude this chapter with such reverent expressions of God’s wisdom and justice as he began with. Those that indulge a complaining humour know not to what indecencies, nay, to what impieties, it will hurry them. The beginning of that strife with God is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with . When we are…
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