Job 11:20
But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.
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19Sleeping with no fear of danger; and men will be desiring to have grace in your eyes;
Cross References
Leviticus 26:16This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
Job 3:21To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;
Job 8:13So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing:
Job 18:14He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.
Job 27:22God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.
Job 34:22There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.
Matthew Henry on Job 11:14-20
13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. 15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: 16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: 17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. 18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea,… Read the whole commentary →