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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Job 30:12

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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youth--rather, a (low) brood. To rise on the right hand is to accuse, as that was the position of the accuser in court (Zac 3:1; Psa 109:6). push . . . feet--jostle me out of the way (Job 24:4). ways of--that is, their ways of (that is, with a view to my) destruction. Image, as in Job 19:12, from a besieging army throwing up a way of approach for itself to a city.
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