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13541 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 466.5 (Matthew Henry)
… had comfort enough in his own house, yet he did not confine himself to that. We are not born for ourselves, but for the public. When any business was to be done in …
13542 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 466.8 (Matthew Henry)
… their comfort, to praise them and pray for them. Those are ungrateful indeed who grudge these small returns.
13543 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 466.10 (Matthew Henry)
… be comfortable to them; it will keep them safe, and fence them against the injuries of the season; it will adorn them, and recommend them to the favour both of …
13544 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 466.15 (Matthew Henry)
… enjoyments comfortable and all his enterprises successful. Let none think to support their prosperity with what they draw from this earth without that …
13545 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 466.19 (Matthew Henry)
… to comfort others with the comforts wherewith we ourselves have been formerly comforted than to comfort ourselves with those comforts wherewith we have …
13546 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 467.1 (Matthew Henry)
… inward comfort and delight, but now he was a terror and burden to himself ( Job 30:15, 30:16 ) and overwhelmed with sorrow, Job 30:28-30:31. III. He had long enjoyed a good …
13547 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 467.11 (Matthew Henry)
In this second part of Job’s complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with.
13548 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 467.13 (Matthew Henry)
… any comfort in. He abandoned himself to perpetual sorrow, as one that, like Jacob, resolved to go to the grave mourning. He walked out of the sun (so some) in dark …
13549 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 467.18 (Matthew Henry)
… creature comforts will be wretchedly disappointed and will make their bed in the darkness. (2.) That is was a very great change in his condition ( Job 30:31 ): “ My harp …
13550 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 467.19 (Matthew Henry)
… he comforts himself, and it is but a little. 1. He foresees, with comfort, that death will be the period of all his calamities ( Job 30:24 ): Though God now, with a strong …
13551 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.3 (Matthew Henry)
… manner comfortable if our consciences can witness for us that we have been careful to preserve our bodies in chastity and to possess those vessels in sanctification …
13552 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.7 (Matthew Henry)
… with comfort or lost with comfort if it was honestly obtained. (3.) His steps never turned out of the way, the way of justice and fair dealing; from that he never …
13553 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.10 (Matthew Henry)
… , the comforts), and lays the conscience waste. It kindles the fire of God’s wrath, which, if not extinguished by the blood of Christ, will burn to the lowest hell …
13554 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.11 (Matthew Henry)
… this comfort that in his prosperity he had behaved well towards them. Note, When relations are either removed from us or embittered to us the testimony of …
13555 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.14 (Matthew Henry)
… his comfort that, when he had them, he came honestly by them, and used them charitably, fed the poor with their flesh and clothed them with their wool.
13556 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.15 (Matthew Henry)
… much comfort, as Job does here.
13557 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.17 (Matthew Henry)
… a comfort to us, yet destruction from God should be a terror to us. Adam, in innocency, was awed with a threatening.
13558 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.19 (Matthew Henry)
… of comfort, in having abundance of this world’s goods. Some make it their hope and confidence for another world, as if it were a certain token of God’s favour …
13559 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.32 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of them, and disappointed in their expectations from them. They sow their land, but they sow not that body that shall be. God will give it a body. It …
13560 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 468.33 (Matthew Henry)
… Paul’s comfort, He that judgeth me is the Lord .