Is not my help within me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Myself. "Have I not placed my trust in him? "God alone. (Haydock)
All my other friends have abandoned me, ver. 15. (Calmet)
Can they wonder if I express my grief? (Haydock)
Familiar. Hebrew, "is wisdom removed far from me? "(Haydock)
Has my strength abandoned me, so that I cannot be recognized? (Calmet)
27. It is now made clear to whom the mind of the stricken man had recourse for hope, seeing that he declares that there was no hope to him in himself; but because he intimates that in himself he was weak, for the earning [or ‘to (shew) the merit of.’] of yet greater strength, let him add how he was even forsaken by his neighbours, My friends also departed from me [V. thus]. But mark, he that was despised without, is seated within upon the throne of judgment. For at the moment that he declares himself forsaken.
