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Job 8:3

Job 8:3

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

or rather these depend upon, and are to be connected with, the last clause of La 3:36; "the Lord approveth not": as he does not do these things himself, he do not approve of them in others; that they should use captives cruelly, trample upon them like mire in the streets, or as the dust of their feet; particularly regard may be had to the Jews in Babylon, used ill by those that detained them; for though it was by the will of God they were carried captive, yet the Chaldeans exceeded due bounds in their usage of them, and added affliction to their affliction, which the Lord approved not of, but resented, Zec 1:15

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