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13581 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 479.16 (Matthew Henry)
… in comforting Job. God sometimes chooses the foolish and weak things of the world, as for conviction, so for comfort. 3. They made a collection among them for …
13582 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 479.17 (Matthew Henry)
… last comforts his best comforts; for his path, like that of the morning-light, shines more and more to the perfect day. Of a wicked man it is said, His last state …
13583 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 479.18 (Matthew Henry)
… great comfort in his children, Job 42:13-42:15. The last of his afflictions that are recorded ( Job 1:13-1:19 ), and the most grievous, was the death of all his children …
13584 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 479.19 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of this life, for he saw his posterity to the fourth generation, Job 42:16. Though his children were not doubled to him, yet in his children’s children …
13585 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 480.2 (Matthew Henry)
The psalmist begins with the character and condition of a godly man, that those may first take the comfort of that to whom it belongs. Here is,
13586 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 480.5 (Matthew Henry)
… our comforts, and we must have it in our thoughts, accordingly, upon every occasion that occurs, whether night or day. No time is amiss for meditating on the word …
13587 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 480.6 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and honour of fruitfulness are a recompense for the labour of it. It is expected from those who enjoy the mercies of grace that, both in the temper …
13588 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 481.9 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort under all the disquietments of our mind. We are tossed on earth, and in the sea, but he sits in the heavens, where he has prepared his throne for judgment …
13589 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 481.17 (Matthew Henry)
… take comfort from this promise, and plead it with God, that the kingdom of Christ shall be enlarged and established and shall triumph over all opposition …
13590 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 481.25 (Matthew Henry)
… may comfort and encourage ourselves and one another. We are the circumcision, that rejoice in Christ Jesus .
13591 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 482.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of the divine blessing and salvation which are sure to all the people of God, Psalms 3:8. Those speak best of the truths of God who speak experimentally …
13592 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 482.2 (Matthew Henry)
… this comfortable psalm. He wept and prayed, wept and sung, wept and believed; this was sowing in tears. Isa. any afflicted? Let him pray; nay, let him sing psalms, let …
13593 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 482.7 (Matthew Henry)
… gained comfort in looking upward when, if he looked round about him, nothing appeared but what was discouraging, here looks back with pleasing reflections …
13594 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 482.8 (Matthew Henry)
… what comfort he looks back upon the communion he had had with God, and the communications of his favour to him, either in some former trouble he had been in, and …
13595 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 482.9 (Matthew Henry)
… be comfortable reflection when we are in trouble): I cried unto God with my voice. Care and grief do us good and no hurt when they set us a praying, and engage us …
13596 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 482.11 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort of another day; and whence is it, but because the Lord has sustained us with sleep as with food? We have been safe under his protection and easy in …
13597 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 482.13 (Matthew Henry)
… fetches comfort from. (1.) That salvation belongeth unto the Lord; he has power to save, be the danger ever so great; it is his prerogative to save, when all other …
13598 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 483.3 (Matthew Henry)
… our comfort, It is God that justifies; he is the God of a believer’s righteousness. 2. “ Thou has formerly enlarged me when I was in distress, enlarged my heart in …
13599 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 483.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts of life. (1.) This is what they most earnestly desire and seek after; this is the breathing of their souls, “ Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance …
13600 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 484.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort, of God’s holiness, Psalms 5:4-5:6. III. He declares his resolution to keep close to the public worship of God, Psalms 5:7. IV. He prayed, 1. For himself, that …