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Job 33:27

Job 33:27

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

looketh: etc. or, shall look upon men, and say

I: Job 7:20; Numbers 12:11; 2 Samuel 12:13; Proverbs 28:13; Jeremiah 3:13, Jeremiah 31:18-19; Luke 15:18-22, Luke 18:13; 1 John 1:8-10

I have sinned: etc. Genesis 16:13; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Psalms 11:4, Psalms 14:2, Psalms 139:1-4; Proverbs 5:21, Proverbs 15:3; Jeremiah 23:24

perverted: Ecclesiastes 5:8

right: Psalms 19:7-8, Psalms 119:128; Romans 7:12-14, Romans 7:16, Romans 7:22

it profited: Job 34:9; Jeremiah 2:8; Matthew 16:26; Romans 6:21

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