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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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And thou hast: etc. Some render, "thou has fettered me," as kamat signifies in Arabic; but as it signifies in Syriac to be wrinkled, the common version seems, from the connexion, to be more correct; and if Job's disease were the elephantiasis, these words would apply most forcibly to the wrinkled state of the skin in that disorder. is a witness: Job 10:17; Rut 1:21; Eph 5:27 my leanness: Psa 106:15; Isa 10:16, Isa 24:16 Job 16:9
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