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13481 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 451.18 (Matthew Henry)
… he comforted himself with this, that there would come a time when God would call and he should answer. Then, that is, (1.) At the resurrection, “Thou shalt call me out …
13482 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 451.23 (Matthew Henry)
… worldly comforts. Hope in Christ, and hope in heaven, death will consummate and not destroy. (2.) How vain it is to struggle against the assaults of death ( Job 14 …
13483 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 452.8 (Matthew Henry)
… . Divine comforts are great things, that is, the comfort which is from God, especially the comfort which is in God. (2.) The consolations of God not being small in …
13484 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 452.16 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of all, and make themselves miserable in the midst of all. How does this tyrant gain his point, and make himself master of cities that have all the …
13485 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 452.18 (Matthew Henry)
… little comfort and satisfaction in his own breast that he is rather to be pitied than envied. First, His own conscience accuses him, and with the pangs and throes …
13486 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 452.19 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort will come to an end with it. How can he prosper when God runs upon him? so some understand that, Job 15:26. Whom God runs upon he will certainly run down …
13487 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 453.2 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort him, but they went about it very awkwardly, and, when they touched Job’s case, quite mistook it: “ Miserable comforters are you all, who, instead of offering …
13488 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 453.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable enjoyment of the gifts of God’s bounty, not fretting and uneasy, as some are in the midst of their prosperity, who thereby provoke God to strip …
13489 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 453.11 (Matthew Henry)
… be comforted .
13490 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 453.12 (Matthew Henry)
Job’s condition was very deplorable; but had he nothing to support him, nothing to comfort him? Yes, and he here tells us what it was.
13491 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 453.16 (Matthew Henry)
… unspeakable comfort to a good man, when he lies under the censure of his brethren, that there is a God in heaven who knows his integrity and will clear it up sooner …
13492 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 453.17 (Matthew Henry)
… may comfort us, that God regards them. (2.) That he would in due time clear up his innocency ( Job 16:21 ): O that one might plead for a man with God ! If he could but now have …
13493 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 453.18 (Matthew Henry)
… is comfortable to those who keep a good conscience to think of it, for it is the crown of their integrity.
13494 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 454.1 (Matthew Henry)
… some comfort.
13495 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 454.9 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort from their own and their father’s friends, they shall look in vain as I have done, and be as much disappointed as I am in you.” Note, Those that wrong …
13496 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 454.13 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort, by these afflictions, that none should, for the sake hereof, think the worse of the ways or work of God. And that which was St. Paul’s comfort was his …
13497 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 454.14 (Matthew Henry)
Job’s friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows,
13498 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 454.15 (Matthew Henry)
… of comforting the afflicted who fetch their comforts from the possibility of their recovery and enlargement in this world; though that is not to be despaired …
13499 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 454.17 (Matthew Henry)
… , the comfort of it is soon gone, and the day is to me as dismal as the black and dark night,” Deuteronomy 28:67. See what reason we have to be thankful for the health …
13500 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 454.20 (Matthew Henry)
… I comfort and support myself with, who shall see it? It is something out of sight that I hope for, not things that are seen, that are temporal, but things not seen …