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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Job 10:17

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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witnesses--His accumulated trials were like a succession of witnesses brought up in proof of his guilt, to wear out the accused. changes and war--rather, "(thou settest in array) against me host after host" (literally, "changes and a host," that is, a succession of hosts); namely, his afflictions, and then reproach upon reproach from his friends.
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