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14221 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 661.21 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of human life: That which is wanting there cannot be numbered, or counted out to us from the treasures of human learning, but what is wanting will …
14222 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 662.4 (Matthew Henry)
… most comfortably refresh ourselves with the gifts of God’s bounty. Then the delights of sense are rightly used when they are used as we use cordials, only …
14223 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 662.17 (Matthew Henry)
… safety, comfort, and usefulness; for the wise man’s eyes are in his head ( Ecclesiastes 2:14 ), where they should be, ready to discover both the dangers that are to …
14224 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 662.25 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it, and do good with it. With this he concludes the chapter, Ecclesiastes 2:24-2:26. There is no true happiness to be found in these things. They are …
14225 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 662.26 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable support of that, so that it may be fit to serve the soul and able to keep pace with it in the service of God, then they turn to a good account. There …
14226 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 662.27 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of them, for they do but tantalize him and tyrannize over him: To the sinner God gives by travail, by leaving him to himself and his own foolish counsels …
14227 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 663.1 (Matthew Henry)
… own comfort, and not to oppress others with it.
14228 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 663.4 (Matthew Henry)
… ), to comfort a people after the time that he has afflicted them, Psalms 90:15. There is a time when it is the wisdom of rulers to use severe methods, but there is a …
14229 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 663.7 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of those that trust in him. Though we see not the complete beauty of Providence, yet we shall see it, and a glorious sight it will be, when the mystery …
14230 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 663.9 (Matthew Henry)
… own comfort. Let us make ourselves easy, rejoice, and enjoy the good of our labour, as it is the gift of God, and so enjoy God in it, and taste his love, return him thanks …
14231 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 663.12 (Matthew Henry)
… the comforts that are past, as he did to Job. We may apply this to our past actions, and our behaviour under the changes that have affected us. God will call us to …
14232 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 663.16 (Matthew Henry)
… unspeakable comfort to the oppressed that their cause will be heard over again. Let them therefore wait with patience, for there is another Judge that stands …
14233 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 663.18 (Matthew Henry)
… and comfort, little lower than the angels; if he be mean and miserable, it is his own fault. Or, that God (that is, the world of God) might manifest them, and discover …
14234 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 663.20 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort of it, and not make it a burden to ourselves and leave others the joy of it; for that is our portion, not the portion of our souls (miserable are those …
14235 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 664.3 (Matthew Henry)
… no comforter; their oppressors were powerful and threatening, and therefore they had no comforter; those that should have comforted them durst not, for fear …
14236 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 664.6 (Matthew Henry)
… little comfort wise and useful men must expect to have in this world. Let them behave themselves ever so cautiously, they cannot escape being envied; and who …
14237 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 664.9 (Matthew Henry)
… and comforts, our spiritual good things. It is our own fault if we do not enjoy ourselves. Yet many are so set upon the world that, in pursuit of it, they bereave …
14238 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 664.10 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfort and advantage of them both, if prudently contracted, that they will very well quit cost. Man, in paradise itself, could not be happy without a mate …
14239 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 665.1 (Matthew Henry)
… the comfortable use of that which God has given us, with an eye to him that is the giver, as the best way both to answer the end of our having it and to obviate the …
14240 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 665.16 (Matthew Henry)
… . A comfortable sight in heaven. When things look thus dismal we may satisfy ourselves with this, (1.) That, though oppressors be high, God is above them, and in that …