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Job 16:8

Job 16:8

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

And thou hast: etc. Some render, "thou has fettered me," as kamat: signifies in Arabic; but as it signifies in Syriac to be wrinkled, the common version seems, from the connexion, to be more correct; and if Job's disease were the elephantiasis, these words would apply most forcibly to the wrinkled state of the skin in that disorder.

is a witness: ; ;

my leanness: ; ,

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