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Gill's Exposition
To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend,.... An "afflicted" man is an object of pity, one that is afflicted of God; either inwardly with a wounded spirit, with a sense of God's…
Barnes' Notes
Is not my help in me? - This would be better rendered in an affirmative manner, or as an exclamation. The interrogative form of the previous verses need not be continued in this. The sense is, “alas!…
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…
Cambridge Bible
This verse reads something as follows,
Is not my help within me gone,
And recovery driven away from me?
Both clauses seem to refer to the exhaustion caused by his disease. He feels that all…
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