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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Job 34:13

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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If the world were not God's property, as having been made by Him, but committed to His charge by some superior, it might be possible for Him to act unjustly, as He would not thereby be injuring Himself; but as it is, for God to act unjustly would undermine the whole order of the world, and so would injure God's own property (Job 36:23). disposed--hath founded (Isa 44:7), established the circle of the globe.
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