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Job 32:11

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I waited for: Job 32:4, Job 29:21, Job 29:23

reasons: Heb. understandings, Instead of tevoonotheychem:, nine manuscripts read techoonotheychem:, "your arguments;" but the sense is nearly the same.

whilst: Ad tachkeroon millin:, "whilst ye were searching for words;" a fine irony, which they must have felt. Job 5:27; Proverbs 18:17, Proverbs 28:11; Ecclesiastes 12:9-10

what to say: Heb. words

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