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5Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
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My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. …
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We are here taught to have a continual regard to the divine Providence in all the concerns of this life. Solomon was cried up for a wise man, and would be apt to lean to his own understanding and forecast, and therefore his father teaches him to look higher, and to take God along with him in his undertakings. He was to be a man of business, and therefore David instructed him how to manage his busi…
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