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Job 1:5

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

The length of his life best agrees with the times before Moses, for in his time the age of man was reduced to seventy years; whereas Job must live two hundred years or more, since he lived one hundred and forty after his restoration: add to this, that this book seems to have been written before any idolatry was in the world but the worship of the sun and moon

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