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361 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 437.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the raising of an estate for himself and his family, which is the chief thing most aim at when they get into great places at court; but he consulted the welfare …
362 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 438.5 (Matthew Henry)
… save the beholding of them with his eyes ? Ecclesiastes 5:11. In a word, Job was the greatest of all the men of the east; and they were the richest in the world: those …
363 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 438.7 (Matthew Henry)
… of the greatest joys of his prosperous estate that his children were about him, Job 29:5. They kept a circular feast at some certain times ( Job 1:4 ); they went and …
364 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 438.23 (Matthew Henry)
… deliver the soul of his turtle-dove into the hand of the adversary, such a lamb to such a lion; but he did it for his own glory, the honour of Job, the explanation …
365 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 438.39 (Matthew Henry)
(1.) He acknowledged the hand of God both in the mercies he had formerly enjoyed and in the afflictions he was now exercised with: The Lord gave, and the Lord has …
366 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 439.5 (Matthew Henry)
… and the use of our limbs and senses, we should the more patiently bear the loss of other comforts. See Matthew 6:25. But Satan grounds upon this an accusation …
367 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 439.17 (Matthew Henry)
… her the evil of what she said, and she spoke the language of the infidels and idolaters, who, when they are hardly bestead, fret themselves, and curse their king …
368 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 441.13 (Matthew Henry)
… , being the greatest of all the men of the east, had got his estate by spoil and used his power in oppressing his neighbours, but now his power and estate were gone …
369 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 441.17 (Matthew Henry)
… with the directions of the divine law, the dispensations of the divine grace, or the disposals of the divine providence, make themselves more just and pure …
370 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 441.19 (Matthew Henry)
… . If the world were left to the government of the angels, and they were trusted with the sole management of affairs, they would take false steps, and everything …
371 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 441.21 (Matthew Henry)
… the brutes. It is true, angels are spirits, and the souls of men are spirits; but, [1.] Angels are pure spirits; the souls of men dwell in houses of clay : such the bodies …
372 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 442.5 (Matthew Henry)
… in the earth; on earthly things they fix the standing of their hopes, and from them they draw the sap of their comforts. The outward estate may be flourishing …
373 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 443.4 (Matthew Henry)
… them the arrows of the Almighty; for it is an instance of the power of God above that of any man that he can with his arrows reach the soul. He that made the soul …
374 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 445.11 (Matthew Henry)
… between the work of the bee and that of the spider. A diligent Christian, like the laborious bee, fetches in all his comfort from the heavenly dews of God’s word …
375 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 446.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the affairs of the children of men. Consider what God does in the government of the world, and you will say, He is wise in heart and mighty in strength. (1.) He does …
376 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 448.12 (Matthew Henry)
… . (1.) He observes vain men. Such all are ( every man, at his best estate, is altogether vanity ), and he considers it in his dealings with them. He knows what the projects …
377 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 450.20 (Matthew Henry)
… ; for the loss of estate, children, health, might well consist with God’s love; when that was all, he blessed the name of the Lord; but his soul was also sorely vexed …
378 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 452.18 (Matthew Henry)
… are the terror of the mighty in the land of the living usually go down slain to the pit ( Ezekiel 32:25 ), the expectation of which makes them a terror to themselves …
379 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 452.19 (Matthew Henry)
… estates to him and his heirs for ever; but to what purpose? He shall not prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth; neither the credit nor the comfort …
380 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 454.13 (Matthew Henry)
… , for the sake hereof, think the worse of the ways or work of God. And that which was St. Paul’s comfort was his too, that the brethren in the Lord would wax confident …