Matthew Henry on Job 33:29-33

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Elihu shows that God's great and gracious design toward the children of men, is, to save them from being for ever miserable, and to bring them to be for ever happy. By whatever means we are kept back from the we shall bless the Lord for them at least, and should bless him for them though they be painful and distressing.

Those that perish for ever are without excuse, for they would not be healed.

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