Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.
He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.
Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?
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Commentary on Job 17 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 17
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His friends becoming strange to him, which greatly grieved him, he makes death and the grave familiar to him, which yielded him some comfort.
Job 17:1-9
Job's discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads:-
Job 17:10-16
Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows,