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Job 5:9

Job 5:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Which doeth great things and unsearchable. These are reasons why Job should "seek unto God." "Great things are those which he has done." There is none like unto him. His ways are "unsearchable;'' no one may think fully to search them and seek them out (comp.

; ; : ). It may be that, if Job will appeal to him, a result will follow that at present seems impossible. For he doeth marvellous things without number (comp.

; ; ; ). Eliphaz proceeds to mention some of them.

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