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13501 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 455.9 (Matthew Henry)
… solid comfort, no joy that is satisfying, no hope that is supporting. Even the light that is in him is darkness; and how great is that darkness ! But, when he is put …
13502 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 455.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort or the continuance of it. His children shall perish, either with him or after him, Job 18:16. So that, his roots being in his own person dried up beneath …
13503 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.1 (Matthew Henry)
… . He comforts himself with the believing hopes of happiness in the other world, though he had so little comfort in this, making a very solemn confession of his …
13504 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.3 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort him, pretended to counsel him for the best; but with a great deal of gravity, and affectation of wisdom and piety, they set themselves to rob him of …
13505 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.8 (Matthew Henry)
… unkind, comfortable or uncomfortable) which God makes it to be. Yet this does not excuse Job’s relations and friends from the guilt of horrid ingratitude …
13506 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.11 (Matthew Henry)
… he comforted himself with the expectation of, and not a deliverance from his trouble or a revival of his happiness in this world, as some would understand …
13507 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.12 (Matthew Henry)
… , but comforted him with the expectation of a blessed resurrection. These are not the words of him that has a devil. He appeals to the coming of the Redeemer, from …
13508 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.13 (Matthew Henry)
… his comforts, which he does, not only for his own satisfaction, but for the edification of others. Those now about him, he feared, would little regard what he said …
13509 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.15 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it. (4.) Our interest in the Redeemer is a thing that may be known; and, where it is known, it may be triumphed in, as sufficient to balance all our griefs …
13510 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.16 (Matthew Henry)
… .) He comforts himself with the hopes of happiness on the other side death and the grave: After I shall awake (so the margin reads it), though this body be destroyed …
13511 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 456.17 (Matthew Henry)
IV. The application of this to his friends. His creed spoke comfort to himself, but warning and terror to those that set themselves against him.
13512 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 457.14 (Matthew Henry)
… little comfort a man has in riches if he has not health! Sickness and pain, especially it they be in extremity, embitter all his enjoyments. This wicked man has …
13513 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 457.15 (Matthew Henry)
… that comfortably which they have gotten unjustly. The unquietness of his mind arises, (1.) From his conscience looking back, and filling him with the fear of …
13514 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 457.16 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort attending it, for he threw down the pieces of silver and went and hanged himself. (2.) He shall be stripped of all he has and become a beggar. He that spoiled …
13515 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 458.2 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort him. “No,” says he, “ let this be your consolations ( Job 21:2 ); if you have no other comforts to administer to me, yet deny me not this; be so kind, so just, as to give …
13516 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 458.22 (Matthew Henry)
… my comfort and honour: and how can such men be convinced?” Job’s friends were ready to say, in answer to his discourse concerning the prosperity of the wicked …
13517 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 458.25 (Matthew Henry)
… any comfort?” Note, Where there is not truth there is little comfort to be expected.
13518 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 459.3 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort; he can with his wisdom entertain himself and enrich himself; but can he so be profitable to God? No; God needs not us nor our services. We are undone …
13519 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 459.9 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable hope that they shall find mercy; and then what can they expect but snares, and darkness, and continual fear?
13520 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 459.14 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of the gospel, must set before them both life and death, good and evil, the blessing and the curse. Now here observe,