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13441 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 443.15 (Matthew Henry)
… ,—to comfort them, and to do all they can to help and relieve them: this well becomes the members of the same body, who should feel for the grievances of their fellow …
13442 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 443.16 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort him ( Job 2:11 ); and some extraordinary things were expected from such wise, learned, knowing men, and Job’s particular friends. None questioned but …
13443 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 443.17 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort him had raised, he compares to the expectation which the weary thirsty travellers have of finding water in the summer where they have often seen …
13444 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 443.18 (Matthew Henry)
… no comfort but in God.” It were well for us if we had always such convictions of the vanity of the creature, and its insufficiency to make us happy, as we have sometimes …
13445 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 443.22 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort him. This made him take a greater liberty than otherwise he would have done. David, though he smothered his resentments when the wicked were before …
13446 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 444.6 (Matthew Henry)
… have comfortable nights we must see them also appointed to us and be thankful for them; many better than we have wearisome nights.
13447 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 444.14 (Matthew Henry)
… of comforting him, terrified him; and his couch, instead of easing his complaint, added to it; for if he dropped asleep, he was disturbed with frightful dreams …
13448 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 444.18 (Matthew Henry)
… . What comfort can we take in ourselves if God appear against us as an enemy and we have not comfort in him. (3.) That he had no intermission of his griefs ( Job 7:19 ): “ How …
13449 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 444.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of that pardon, and then I can easily bear my afflictions,” Matthew 9:2, 33:24. When the mercy of God pardons the transgression that is committed by …
13450 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 445.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it. Eliphaz did not reply to what Job had said in answer to him, but left it to Bildad, whom he knew to be of the same mind with himself in this affair …
13451 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 445.4 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforted thee according to the time of thy affliction; but, because he does not so, we have reason to conclude thou art not so pure and upright as thou pretendest …
13452 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 445.11 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort from the heavenly dews of God’s word; but the hypocrite, like the subtle spider, weaves his out of a false hypothesis of his own concerning God, as …
13453 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 445.13 (Matthew Henry)
… ) and comforts should flow in upon him so plentifully that his mouth should be filled with laughing, Job 8:21. So affecting should the happy change be, Psalms …
13454 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 446.5 (Matthew Henry)
… no comfort in their way nor any success. What did ever man get by trials of skill, or trials of titles, with his Maker? All the opposition given to God is but setting …
13455 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 446.10 (Matthew Henry)
… creature-comforts and confidences when and as he pleases, takes away health, estate, relations, friends, takes away life itself; whatever goes, it is he that …
13456 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 446.19 (Matthew Henry)
… my comforts did from me. Never did ship sail to its port, never did eagle fly upon its prey, with such incredible swiftness; nor does there remain any trace of …
13457 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 446.20 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort himself, that he might be fit for converse both with God and man; but, 2. He found he could not do it: “ I am afraid of all my sorrows. When I strive most against …
13458 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 446.22 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort, but of his reputation. Yet these words are capable of a good construction. If we be ever so industrious to justify ourselves before men, and to preserve …
13459 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 447.1 (Matthew Henry)
… then comforts himself with this, that he was in the hand of the God that made him, and pleads that, Job 10:8-10:13. II. He complains again of the severity of God’s dealings …
13460 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 447.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of those who are in Christ Jesus that, though they are in affliction, there is no condemnation to them, Romans 8:1. Nay, they are chastened of the Lord …