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Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked?
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A Cry of Confused Anguish
Commentators explain that Job's questions arise from the anguish of trying to reconcile his intense suffering with God's goodness. He feels like God is despising His own creation while allowing the wicked to prosper. Scholars describe his words as a 'bold and daring' cry from the 'bitterness of his soul,' reflecting a profound crisis of faith.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Is it good to you that you should oppress—The sense of this is that it could not be with God a matter of personal gratification to …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[Is it] good unto you that you should oppress ? &c.] This God does not approve of in others; he dehorts men from it;…
Job, being weary of his life, resolves to complain, but he will not charge God with unrighteousness. Here is a prayer that he might be delivered fr…
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13th Century
Catholic
Job earlier proposed that both the innocent and the wicked are assailed by trials in this world. He touched upon one possible reason for the punish…
