2A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
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For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.
A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 2)Note, 1. We are really as we are with God. Those are happy, truly happy, for ever happy, that obtain favour of the Lord , though the world frown upon them, and they find little favour with men; for in God’s favour is life, and that is the fountain of all good. On the other hand those are miserable whom he condemns , however men may applaud them, and cry them up; whom he condemns he condemns to the…
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