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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Job 40:4

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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I am (too) vile (to reply). It is a very different thing to vindicate ourselves before God, from what it is before men. Job could do the latter, not the former. lay . . . hand . . . upon . . . mouth--I have no plea to offer (Job 21:5; Jdg 18:19).
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