What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
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Gill's Exposition
Is my strength the strength of stones?.... Is it like such especially which are foundation and corner stones that support a building? or like a stone pillar, that will bear a prodigious weight? no, it…
Barnes' Notes
What is my strength, that I should hope? - Job had hitherto borne his trials without apprehension that he would lose his constancy of hope, or his confidence in God. He here seems to apprehend that…
Ungoverned passion often grows more violent when it meets with some rebuke and check. The troubled sea rages most when it dashes against a rock. Job had been courting death, as that which would be the…
With more calmness Job proceeds to describe his hopeless condition, carrying out in this indirect way his defence of his despair.
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