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13521 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 459.15 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfortable acquaintance with him; for how can two walk together except they be agreed ? Amos 3:3. This we must do quickly, now, before it be too late. Agree with …
13522 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 459.16 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort.” The promises which Eliphaz here encourages Job with are reducible to three heads:—
13523 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 459.23 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comfort, and good success.” [2.] “He shall, by his providence and grace, answer those letters, and give thee what thou askest of him, either in kind or kindness: He …
13524 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 459.24 (Matthew Henry)
… thy comfort, and thy ways shall be so under both those lights that thou shalt have a comfortable enjoyment of what is present and a comfortable prospect of …
13525 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 459.25 (Matthew Henry)
… in comfort.
13526 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 460.1 (Matthew Henry)
… he comforts himself with the assurance of God’s clemency ( Job 23:6, 23:7 ), and his own integrity, which God himself was a witness to, Job 23:10-23:12. Thus was the light …
13527 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 460.3 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort me, still the pains of my body and the wounds of my spirit are such that I have reason enough for my complaints, if they were more bitter than they …
13528 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 460.4 (Matthew Henry)
… Paul comforted himself in this, that he that judged him was the Lord, and therefore he valued not man’s judgment ( 1 Corinthians 4:3, 4:4 ), but he was willing to wait …
13529 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 460.8 (Matthew Henry)
… be comfortable, Job 23:7. There, in the court of heaven, when the final sentence is to be given, the righteous might dispute with him and come off in his righteousness …
13530 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 460.11 (Matthew Henry)
… . This comforted the prophet, Jeremiah 12:3. Thou hast tried my heart towards thee. From this Job infers, When he hath tried me I shall come forth as gold. Those that …
13531 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 463.4 (Matthew Henry)
… should comfort us, but the Comforter, who is the Holy Ghost, never mistakes in his operations nor misses of his end.
13532 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 464.3 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of it. We, by our impatience, vex our own souls and then complain of God that he has vexed them. Yet see Job’s confidence in the goodness both of his …
13533 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 464.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , and comfort, and credit of his integrity; he was resolved to defend it to the last. “God knows, and my own heart knows, that I always meant well, and did not allow myself …
13534 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 464.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable evidence of our uprightness; for how can we be easy if the great concern lie at uncertainties? Job’s friends would persuade him that all his …
13535 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 464.12 (Matthew Henry)
… neither comfortable nor constant ( Job 27:10 ): Will he delight himself in the Almighty ? No, not at any time (for his delight is in the profits of the world and the …
13536 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 464.16 (Matthew Henry)
… live comfortably. They shall be so needy that they shall not have a competency of necessary food, and so greedy, or so discontented, that what they have they …
13537 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 466.1 (Matthew Henry)
… . What comfort and satisfaction he had in his house and family, Job 29:1-29:6. 2. What a great deal of honour and power he had in his country, and what respect was paid …
13538 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 466.2 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts they are stripped of. Their former prosperity is one of the most pleasing subjects of their thoughts and talk. It was so to Job, who begins here …
13539 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 466.3 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfortably through all the darkness of this vale of tears. That puts gladness into the heart enough to counterbalance all the grievances of this present …
13540 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 466.4 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to tender parents to see their children about them. Job speaks very feelingly of this comfort now that he was deprived of it. He thought it an instance …