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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Job 33:19

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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When man does not heed warnings of the night, he is chastened, &c. The new thought suggested by Elihu is that affliction is disciplinary (Job 36:10); for the good of the godly. multitude--so the Margin, Hebrew (Keri). Better with the text (Chetib), "And with the perpetual (strong) contest of his bones"; the never-resting fever in his bones (Psa 38:3) [UMBREIT].
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