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Job 1:8

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considered: Heb. set thy heart on, Job 2:3, Job 34:14; Ezekiel 40:4

my servant: Numbers 12:7-8; Psalms 89:20; Isaiah 42:1

none: Numbers 12:3; 1 Kings 4:30-31; 2 Kings 23:25

a perfect: Job 1:1, Job 8:20, Job 9:22-23; Psalms 18:23; John 1:47

upright: Job 12:4, Job 17:8-9, Job 23:11-12; Psalms 84:11

one: Nehemiah 5:15; Psalms 36:1; Proverbs 8:13; Luke 23:39-40

escheweth: Psalms 34:14, Psalms 37:27; Isaiah 1:16

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