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Job 16:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

if your soul: Job 6:2-5, Job 6:14; Matthew 7:12; Romans 12:15; 1 Corinthians 12:26

up words: Job 11:2, Job 35:16; Proverbs 10:19; Ecclesiastes 10:14

shake mine: 2 Kings 19:21; Psalms 22:7, Psalms 44:14, Psalms 109:25; Jeremiah 18:16; Lamentations 2:15; Matthew 27:39-40

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