Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
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Gill's Exposition
For God maketh my heart soft,.... Not tender as Josiah's was, Kg2 22:19, or as the heart of every penitent is, when God makes it humble and contrite by his spirit and grace, or takes away the stony…
Barnes' Notes
Therefore am I troubled at his presence - The doctrine of divine purposes and decrees “is fitted to impress the mind with awe.” So vast are the plans of God; so uncertain to us is it what will be…
Some make Job to complain here that God dealt unjustly and unfairly with him in proceeding to punish him without the least relenting or relaxation, though he had such incontestable evidences to…
Cambridge Bible
It is this thought of the moral riddle which his history presents, and of the moral iniquity that characterizes God's government, that perplexes and paralyses Job.
at his presence Or, before him, i.…
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