John Gill's Exposition on Job 21:9

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Their houses [are] safe from fear, etc.] Of enemies besetting them, entering into them, and pillaging and plundering them; of thieves and robbers breaking into them, and carrying off their substance: or “their houses [are] peace” f804; their families live in peace among themselves, or enjoy all prosperity, which the word peace frequently signifies; they have peace and prosperity within doors and are free “from fear”, or devoid of fear, from anything without; neither [is] the rod of God upon them; neither his rod of chastisement, which is upon his own people, and with which he scourges every son, though in love for their good, and which was now upon Job, (<180934>Job 9:34); nor any sore judgment, as famine, plague, sword, or any other; no, not even the common afflictions and troubles that men are exercised with.

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