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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Job 9:25

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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a post--a courier. In the wide Persian empire such couriers, on dromedaries or on foot, were employed to carry the royal commands to the distant provinces (Est 3:13, Est 3:15; Est 8:14). "My days" are not like the slow caravan, but the fleet post. The "days" are themselves poetically said to "see no good," instead of Job in them (Pe1 3:10).
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