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John Gill's Exposition on Job 41:27

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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He esteemeth iron as straw, etc.] You may as well cast a straw at him as a bar of iron; it will make no impression on his steeled back, which is as a coat of mail to him; so Eustathius affirms f1563 that the sharpest iron is rebounded and blunted by him; [and] brass as rotten wood; or steel, any instrument made of it, though ever so strong or piercing.
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