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2 Samuel 14:14

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we must: 2 Samuel 11:25; Job 30:23, Job 34:15; Psalms 90:3, Psalms 90:10; Ecclesiastes 3:19-20, Ecclesiastes 9:5; Hebrews 9:27

as water: Job 14:7-12, Job 14:14; Psalms 22:14, Psalms 79:3

neither: etc. or, because God hath not taken away his life, he hath also devised means, etc. God. Deuteronomy 10:17; Job 34:19; Matthew 22:16; Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11; 1 Peter 1:17

he devise: Exodus 21:13; Leviticus 26:40; Numbers 35:15, Numbers 35:25, Numbers 35:28; Isaiah 50:1-2

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